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A 50-year-old woman had been suffering from the consequences of Scheuermann's disease since puberty. Moderate curvature of the thoracic spine, hardly any buffering by intervertebral discs in the affected area.

Permanent diffuse pain over the years, moderate to severe pain after prolonged light strain or brief periods of heavy strain (lifting, carrying). Activities that put strain on the thoracic spine could only be carried out for short periods of time with pain.

The conflict was resolved at around 50 years of age:
The client's father loved women with huge breasts. Even the breasts of the client's mother - although a D cup - were too small for him, which the mother once mentioned indignantly to the client when she was still in puberty.

As the client herself had rather small breasts at a young age and her mother's breasts represented an ideal of the female breast for her, she was very affected by the father's comments to her mother (which she never heard herself).

In addition, at the beginning of puberty, the father once said to the client (his daughter) carelessly and jokingly: “Well, are they growing yet?”, which she personally found embarrassing and offensive.
As the client's younger sister developed breasts that probably corresponded to her father's ideal image, she felt even more inadequate with regard to her own bust size.

Scheuermann's disease was therefore also most pronounced in the thoracic vertebra where the bra clasp is usually located.

When the client realized these connections at the age of 50, and was also quite happy with her increased bust size over the years, she was able to resolve the original conflict immediately and the pain has since disappeared permanently, although the pathologically altered anatomy of the spine remains unchanged.

Note by Björn Eybl:
Thank you for the nice experience report. The conflict went on for almost 40 years.
Interesting: The pain is gone, although the spine is unchanged. This is in line with my 30 years of experience as a massage therapist: whether the spine/pelvic ring is straight or crooked is not so important in terms of complaints.
Sometimes people with a perfectly straight spine have severe pain and others with a totally misaligned spine have none. The psyche plays the main role, not the mechanics/statics.