ALLMedicine™ Acute Torticollis Center

Oct 28th, 2022 - Overview Emergent management of torticollis can pose a challenge to the emergency physician owing to the fact that the condition can be acute or chronic, congenital or acquired, and idiopathic or secondary to trauma or disease. Moreover, the onset...

Oct 28th, 2022 - Emergent management of torticollis can pose a challenge to the emergency physician owing to the fact that the condition can be acute or chronic, congenital or acquired, and idiopathic or secondary to trauma or disease. Moreover, the onset of torti...

Oct 28th, 2022 - Overview Emergent management of torticollis can pose a challenge to the emergency physician owing to the fact that the condition can be acute or chronic, congenital or acquired, and idiopathic or secondary to trauma or disease. Moreover, the onset...

Jan 25th, 2022 - Sudden onset of acute torticollis in children is rare and is usually diagnosed as atlantoaxial rotatory subluxation (AARS). The common treatment for acute AARS without neurological symptoms is halter traction in conjunction with muscle relaxant an...

Jan 8th, 2022 - Torticollis in children can be a sign of a potentially dangerous disease; the correct diagnosis is not always obvious on history and physical examination. The use of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) helps to limit the differential diagnosis and di...

Acute torticollis, also known among some physicians as wry neck, is essentially a stiffness of the neck due to a muscular spasm. In fact, an approximate translation from the Latin-based “acute torticollis” is twisted collar or twisted neck.