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A Two-Year Prospective Study Of Infant Postural Torticollis, Baii-Jia Yang, Hwei-Chu Lin

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Torticollis is a common physical finding in infants, and congenital muscular torticollis is the most commonly reported type. If the only findings are head tilting and facial asymmetry without limitation of ROM of the neck and lack of pathological change of the sternocleidomastoid muscle, infant postural torticollis is the most likely diagnosis. From June, 1995 to May, 1997 we prospectively studied 211 cases of postural and muscular torticollis and excluded other causes of head tilting. The male to female ratio was 114:97, and left to right side ratio 104:107. 130 cases (61.6%) had infant postural torticollis (Group I), while 81 …