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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 most pronounced in the thoracic vertebrae where the bra clasp is usually located.

When the client became aware of these connections at the age of over 50, and was also quite happy with her increased bust size over the years, she was able to resolve the primal conflict immediately by going back into the situation and playing through a short EFT sequence with an imaginary dialogue with her father: This is none of your business, you ... played through.

Since then, the pain has disappeared permanently, although the pathologically altered anatomy of the spine remains unchanged.

Note:
Scheuermann's disease

A widespread back condition that usually begins in adolescence is known as Scheuermann's disease, although this hyperkyphosis of the thoracic spine is often even more pronounced in older people – it used to be called widow's hump.

From the perspective of 5BN, this is essentially a case of so-called self-esteem collapse (SWE). With the surge of hormones during puberty, many changes occur in terms of one's own personality, especially in terms of outward appearance and perception of the opposite (or same) sex.

The physiologically present slight kyphosis of the thoracic spine becomes hyperkyphosis due to a minor or pronounced wedge-shaped deformation of the thoracic vertebrae. This occurs when the thoracic vertebrae become soft and thus less able to bear weight due to an SWE-SBS in the first part of the pcl phase, as osteoporosis is replenished with callus, and they deform into a wedge shape under pressure. In the second part of the pcl phase, the reinforced structures of the vertebrae harden again. Hyperkyphosis may remain if the vertebrae are not orthopedically supported in the first part of the pcl phase at the latest. In the past, this was often done with a plaster cast or an orthopedic support device. However, this can also lead to poor posture if the natural kyphosis of the thoracic spine is straightened too much.

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.