The term wry-neck or torticollis is applied to a condition in which the head assumes an abnormal attitude, which is usually one of combined lateral flexion and rotation.
Deviations of the neck simulating torticollis may occur in cervical caries, and in unilateral dislocation of the spine.
When the torticollis attitude has been corrected in childhood, the asymmetry of the skull disappears.
There is nothing special in the treatment of torticollis beyond what has been already said under the general heading.
I have had cases of torticollis in my practice, and thought I had done well if after a half hour of hard work massaging contracted muscles I had benefited the case.
To retrace the steps in the evolution of mental torticollisis a task not always easy of accomplishment.
For, strictly speaking, there are both a torticollis tic and a torticollis spasm, and their separation one from the other is often a matter of the greatest perplexity.
No other designation could therefore be more appropriate than attitude tic, or could indeed be imagined, seeing that Cruchet himself ranges mental torticollis among the tics, and describes it as "an attitude of defence and of repose.
That is to say, the resistance offered by the torticollis to reduction may at one moment be nil, at another, feeble, or forcible, or even insuperable.
Martin has recorded an example of torticollis in relation to melancholia.
At the Congress of Limoges a case was reported by Lannois where the onset of torticollis in a young girl was determined by an overpowering impulse to gaze at a little papilloma on her nose.
By analogy, in some cases of spasmodic torticollis a point of irritation on one of the sensory nerves of the cervical plexus might generate a reflex motor reaction in the area of the accessory, with possible diffusion to neighbouring trunks.
No doubt facts such as these just given are rather uncommon, but there is abundant reason for considering mental torticollis one of the most tenacious and intractable of all tics.
Complete rest in bed was ordered, yet after two or three days of this repose the torticollis manifested itself even in the recumbent position.
Torticollis apart, few tics invite treatment at the hands of the surgeon, with the exception of facial tics or spasms.
The history of a torticollis patient will usually show that there is some contortion of the muscles of the neck familiarly practiced by him.
In the neck the group of muscles that rule the movements of the head, especially those at the side may be affected and the special name of torticollis has been given.
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