How to treat habitual torticollis

summary

Torticollis can be divided into congenital muscular torticollis and congenital skeletal torticollis. Patients will have torticollis deformity, neck mass and other symptoms. Let's see how to treat habitual torticollis.

How to treat habitual torticollis

First of all: for children less than half a year old, non-surgical treatment can obtain satisfactory results. Therefore, once the diagnosis is made, treatment should be carried out as soon as possible. The methods of non-surgical treatment include local hot compress, massage, bed rest fixation and manual traction. It is very important to make clear the condition and treat symptomatically.

Secondly, indications and contraindications of operation ① It is suitable for those over half a year old who have no response to conservative treatment; ② those under 12 years old who have obvious torticollis deformity; ③ those over 12 years old who have no serious facial deformity can also be considered for surgical treatment; ④ for adults, because the deformity has existed for many years, not only the facial deformity will be more obvious after surgery, but also the vision will change because it does not adapt to the new position after surgery, so it is not suitable for surgery.

Finally: Children's torticollis is a common congenital disease in children's head and neck, the disease in the early correct and effective non-surgical treatment, most children can be completely cured.

matters needing attention

In the use of conservative treatment can not achieve good results, should choose surgical treatment, surgical age is about 1 year old, preferably not more than 1.5 years old, so the effect can achieve the best degree.