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- Congenital muscular torticollis, also called wry neck, is a deformity causing the neck of the newborn to be stiff and the head to be turned or tilted to one side due to fibrotic and/or hypertrophic sternocleidomastoid
- 3rd most common congenital musculoskeletal disorder (after DDH and clubfoot)
- Clinical features
- Tilted and rotated head
- Limited range of motion
- Prominent and tense sternocleidomastoid
- Treatment
- Conservative
- Physiotherapy
- Stretching of SCM
- Surgery
- At 1 – 2 years if conservative was insufficient
- Conservative