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Torticollis: types, causes, diagnosis, methods of therapy

Exercises (physical therapy, gymnastics) when Krivoshei in adults and children

exercising during Krivoshei is a basic therapy of the disease. Its purpose – improvement of metabolic processes, increasing blood circulation, elimination of contractures, increased muscle tone, prevention of deformation read more...
 

Features of torticollis in children 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 months

Torticollis the child can be observed from the first month of life. In this case the disease is due to congenital and fetal disorders. The acquired form of pathology read more...
 

Electrophoresis, paraffin and physiotherapy with Krivoshei

Electrophoresis Krivoshei when used in combination with other methods, which greatly increases the efficiency of the procedure. Its essence lies in the fact that the medicinal substance penetrates into read more...
 

Neurogenic torticollis in children and adults: causes, symptoms, treatment

Neurogenic torticollis – a neck angle tilted to the side and turning the head, caused by disorders of innervation of the sternocleidomastoid muscle. The frequency of the disease among read more...
 

Massage with Krivoshei in children and newborns

Massage with Krivoshei in newborns, infants and older children, can only be done by trained professionals. If parents wish to independently conduct massage child, they must be trained. These approaches read more...
 

Stiff neck: symptoms, signs, causes, diagnosis, treatment, consequences

Treatment of torticollis should begin with the early stages of the disease. The longer maintained hypertonicity sternocleidomastoid muscle, the harder it is to treat the pathology. Asymmetrical deformity of read more...
 

Acute torticollis: causes, symptoms, treatment syndrome

Acute torticollis – spastic contraction of the neck muscles with deviation of the head from the centerline of the torso that occurs when the spinal deformity. Pathology is accompanied read more...
 

Congenital muscular torticollis in infants (newborn babies): treatment

Congenital muscular torticollis occurs when damage to the sternocleidomastoid muscle on the background of intrauterine hypoxia (lack of oxygen). Among all congenital malformations in children, congenital "bend" the neck read more...
 

Spastic torticollis in adults and children: causes, symptoms, treatment, folk remedies

Spastic torticollis occurs most often in adults. In children, the pathology is due to morphological changes in sternal or clavicular heads of the sternocleidomastoid muscle during fetal hypoxia (lack read more...
 

Torticollis in adults and adolescents: symptoms, treatment

Torticollis in adults is a spastic contraction of the neck muscles on one side. Pathology is easy to identify by appearance of the person. His neck tilted to one read more...
 

Torticollis in the newborn baby (baby, baby): treatment, symptoms, signs, causes

Torticollis in newborns, infants, babies and pupils, "twisted neck" allocate doctors. They reflect developmental phases in which pathology is detected, and there are specific signs of pathology. The Clinical symptoms read more...