SPASMODIC WRY NECK

The hanging head method for the treatment of acute wry neck.

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Spontaneous spinal epidural haematoma in a 15-month-old boy presenting with a wry neck: a case report.

A 15-month-old boy presented with a 2-day history of a wry neck (bent to the left side) with no definite trauma. He had bilateral upper limb weakness and was afebrile, conscious, and stable. There was no spontaneous movement in both upper limbs. Magnetic resonance imaging of the cervical and thoracic spine demonstrated an extensive spontaneous spinal epidural haematoma from C3 to T8. 23 hours a...

An Experimental Investigation of the Cervical and Thoracic Nerve Roots in Relation to the Subject of Wry-Neck.

Effect of prolonged neck muscle vibration on lateral head tilt in severe spasmodic torticollis.

UNLABELLED Short term vibration of the dorsal neck muscles (10-35 s) is known to induce involuntary movements of the head in patients with spasmodic torticollis. To investigate whether neck muscle vibration might serve as a therapeutic tool when applied for a longer time interval, we compared a vibration interval of 5 seconds with a 15 minute interval in a patient with spasmodic torticollis wit...

Spasmodic torticollis following unilateral VIII nerve lesions: neck EMG modulation in response to vestibular stimuli.

Three patients with spasmodic torticollis following VIII nerve lesions (VIII-ST) underwent quantitative assessment of their sternomastoid EMG during vestibular (otolith and semicircular canal) stimulation. The results were compared with a normal control group and with six patients with idiopathic spasmodic torticollis (ST). Backwards tilt of the VIII-ST patients resulted in a marked increase in...