Treatment of crooked neck

Crooked neck is a disease that is most common in children from birth. But there are many cases among adults who have received the disease as a result of injury. This pathology is accompanied by tilting the head in one direction or another. If the deformity is detected at birth, it can be caused by dysplasia of the mammary-clavicular muscle. This disease is one of the first congenital malformations in children.

Types and symptoms of crooked neck

If we talk about the clinical signs of this disease, the manifestations of muscle pathology depend on the age of the child. Symptoms and choice of treatment for crooked neck vary depending on the form of the disease. There are three forms of the disease:

• easy;
• average;
• heavy.

Mild and moderate forms are quite difficult to diagnose. Parents of children usually consult a doctor at a time when pathological changes affect the bones of the facial skeleton. In moderate and severe conditions, the disease is diagnosed much easier.

A characteristic symptom of muscular curvature of the neck is the incorrect forced position of the head relative to the torso. It is not easy to correct the deformation. The reason for this is excessive tension of the mammary-clavicular muscle. At the same time you can feel the thickening. With the further growth of the child, the symptoms become more noticeable, the flexibility of muscle tissue in this place becomes less. When the child is older than 1 year, you can see asymmetrical changes in half of the facial skeleton.

If the child is not given timely treatment of muscular curvature of the neck, then at the age of 3 years the deformity becomes more noticeable. On the side where the head is tilted, the neck will look shorter.

Sick children may develop cervical or thoracic scoliosis on the side where the pathology is present.