How is infantile torticollis symptom diagnosed?

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The first cervical vertebra is called atlas, and the second cervical vertebra is called axis. It is two circular cervical vertebra. Atlas connects with skull. There is a dentate process on the anterior ring of axis, and the upper attached ligament is connected with Atlas (as shown in the figure). If you imagine cutting an arc at the front of the ring on the atlas and taking it as an arch, the string of this arch is the strong transverse ligament, plus several other small and strong ligaments to form a joint and connect the two cervical vertebra. How is infantile torticollis symptom diagnosed? Let's talk about it.

How is infantile torticollis symptom diagnosed?

Clinically, 5-10-year-old school-age children are the most common, because this age group of children are very active, 2-3-year-old children have fewer patients, but also occur. When the child is over 10 years old, the protection of ligaments and muscles for joints is strengthened, and the possibility of disease is also small.

This kind of pediatric orthopedic common disease, why most people do not know? "Atlantoaxial rotation displacement" caused by children's cold is a self limiting disease. Some children have mild symptoms and can improve themselves by lying in bed. Only those children with severe subluxation, head unable to rotate and severe pain will go to the hospital.

For adults, cervical subluxation is rarely caused by a cold, and little is known about the cause. The treatment of cervical subluxation in children is different from that in adults due to trauma and other violent factors. This is also the reason why some doctors who don't have the experience of pediatric orthopedics don't dare to accept the patients rashly.

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If the treatment is not timely, some children's ligaments always can't return to normal, like a long crooked sapling, although it doesn't affect the activity, but the child may have been slightly crooked neck. In theory, if it's serious, it's possible to compress nerves and spinal cord, so surgery is needed.