BACKGROUND Spasmodic torticollis is a movement disorder of the nuchal muscles, characterized by tremor or by tonic posturing of the head in a rotated, twisted, or abnormally flexed or extended position or some combination of these positions. The abnormal posturing of the head allows this disorder to be clinically diagnosed. Psychiatric symptoms frequently accompany or precede the diagnosis of t...

Torticollis is another name for “twisted neck.” It sounds like “tōr’ti-kol’is” when you say it out loud. Sometimes babies are born with their necks twisted more to one side than the other. Other times this can happen after birth. In either case, the neck muscle on one side is tighter or shorter than usual. (It is not a bone problem. Your baby’s bones are normal.) We don’t really know for sure w...

OBJECTIVES Congenital muscular torticollis, a common disorder that refers to the shortening of the sternocleidomastoid in infants, is sensitive to correction through physical therapy when treated early. If physical therapy is unsuccessful, surgery is required. In this study, we developed a support vector regression model for congenital muscular torticollis to investigate the prognosis of the ph...

Dystonia is a movement disorder characterised by involuntary, extended, patterned, and often repetitive muscle contractions of skeletal muscles, frequently causing twisting movements or abnormal postures. Recent studies have shown that stress coffee consumption can precipitate dystonic attacks. Many people, due to their diligent life schedules increased physical inactivity less work-life balanc...

Torticolis from the Latin torti, meaning twisted, and collis, meaning neck, refers to presentation of the neck in a twisted or bent position. Congenital Muscular Torticollis is a condition that occurs at birth or up to age two months. Congenital Muscular Torticollis is characterized by unilateral fibrosis or shortening of the sternocleidomastoid muscle, causing lateral flexion of the head and d...

PURPOSE Residual head tilt has been reported in patients with superior oblique muscle palsy (SOP) after surgery to weaken the inferior oblique (IO) muscle. The treatments for these patients have not received appropriate attention. In this study, we evaluated the superior rectus (SR) muscle recession as a surgical treatment. METHODS The medical records of 12 patients with SOP were retrospectiv...

Torticollis is a common clinical sign encountered by pediatricians and orthopaedic surgeons in a wide spectrum of childhood conditions ranging from benign to life-threatening. We report the case of a child with recurrent torticollis caused by Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis (LCH). The patient was a 1-year-old boy with recurrent torticollis, followed by a painless swelling over the right temporal ...

Before 1911, when Hermann Oppenheim introduced the term dystonia, this movement disorder lacked a unifying descriptor. While words like epilepsy, apoplexy, and palsy have had their meanings since antiquity, references to dystonia are much harder to identify in historical documents. Torticollis is an exception, although there is difficulty distinguishing dystonic torticollis from congenital musc...