How to judge baby torticollis

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Torticollis is a congenital disease, which is mainly divided into skeletal torticollis and muscular torticollis. It needs to be diagnosed according to the disease and medical equipment. Let's see how to judge baby's torticollis.

How to judge baby torticollis

First of all: ultrasound examination, especially for children with congenital muscular torticollis, ultrasound examination can accurately distinguish with other neck diseases, such as cystic lymphangioma, cervical lymphadenopathy and so on. Especially when the mass has disappeared, ultrasound examination is more important.

Secondly, X-ray examination is helpful to identify different causes of torticollis, such as occipitocervical deformity caused by bony torticollis and spontaneous atlantoaxial rotation subluxation caused by torticollis, generally will not produce sternocleidomastoid muscle contracture and mass, the latter has a history of minor trauma or upper respiratory tract infection. According to the disease can be more accurate diagnosis.

Make the final diagnosis and relevant examination. For those cases which are difficult to be diagnosed by the above examination methods, CT examination can be carried out, which can provide relatively clear images, which is conducive to the diagnosis and exclusion of organic lesions.

matters needing attention

Congenital muscular torticollis is not treated effectively in the early stage, and facial deformity will appear after 2 years old. Torticollis need to be found in the abnormal time, timely treatment, to avoid more serious damage to the body of children.