Dystonia involves involuntary muscle contractions, but you're not out of options. Discover how botulinum toxin, DBS, and ...

MATERIAL AND METHOD This article is based on a review of the case notes of patients who underwent surgery for atlantoaxial rotatory fixation in the Department for Neurosurgery at Oslo University ...

Other things that may lead to deformational plagiocephaly include: Muscular torticollis. Muscular torticollis is a problem that is present at birth (congenital). One or more of the neck muscles is ...

What causes torticollis? The causes of torticollis are unknown, but it may arise as a result of muscular, skeletal, neurological or visual conditions. The most common form is congenital muscular ...

TORTICOLLIS is an involuntary movement disorder resulting in tonic abnormal deviation of the head and neck. It is often accompanied by hyperkinesis of the head and neck, consisting of arrhythmic cl ...

Torticollis can make it difficult to perform everyday tasks or even turn your neck. In most cases, exercises and physical therapy for torticollis focus on relieving muscle tension and ...

In these patients, torticollis occurs as a protective response to mechanical instability at the CVJ, 5 where the body twists the neck to alleviate the compression. 2 5 This natural adaptation ...

Abnormal head posture caused by vision problems is called ocular torticollis. According to ophthalmologists, about 5.6% of adults and 3.2% of children have ocular torticollis.

Of the patients with significant residual torticollis, 33.3% had ocular causes. The mean age at operation for the patients with residual torticollis (95.9 months) was older than those without ...

The answer depends, in part, on why your muscles hurt in the first place. To know whether stretching sore muscles could benefit you, it helps to understand what’s behind that ache, board ...