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Congenital Torticollis - Coggle Diagram
Congenital Torticollis
1.definition
- called wry neck
- a condition where the
sternocleidomastoid muscle of the neck undergoes contractures pulling it to the same side and turning the face to the opposite
side.
- Fibromatosis within the sternomastoid muscle.
- A branch of the superior thyroid artery that is blocked due to trauma, etc.
- Birth trauma—Breech delivery, improper application of forceps, etc. may cause injury to the sternomastoid muscle.
- muscle ischemia, necrosis and fibrosis later on.
- Tumor palpable at birth or during the first two weeks of life.
- May include the muscle diffusely but more often it is localized near the clavicular attachment of the muscle
- It attains maximum size within 1-2 months; usually it disappears within a year.
- If it fails to disappear, then the muscle becomes permanently fibrotic and contracted and causes torticollis
clinical features
- face rotated to other side
- macular changes
- neck tilted to same side
- taut SCM
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infancy
stretching, Physiotherapy
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