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Since the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended the supine sleeping position for infants to prevent SIDS, positional plagiocephaly (PP) prevalence has increased. There are great controversies regarding the possible consequences of PP and the degree of severity required for them to manifest. There is no consensus on the efficacy of PP therapies, such as positioning, kinesiology, and cranial orthoses. This review aims to analyze the existing literature to update the causes, main characteristics, and evidence on the treatment of PP. Intervention from the newborn period is important, encompassing both prevention and management education, as well as early screening, evaluating the possible presence of congenital muscular torticollis, to start early treatment. The presence of PP can be a risk marker for psychomotor development.

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BACKGROUND: Cervical dystonia is the most common form of focal idiopathic dystonia and is frequently associated with pain. Headaches are not considered to be more prevalent among patients presenting with cervical dystonia, and headaches attributed to craniocervical dystonia are considered to be a rare disorder, despite the lack of studies and clinical information regarding the subject. OBJECTIVES: To investigate the prevalence, characteristics and impact of headaches attributed to craniocervical dystonia in cervical dystonia patients receiving treatment with botulinum toxin type-A (BoT-A). METHODS: Twenty-four patients presenting with cervical dystonia were assessed before receiving their scheduled BoNT-A injections and then again approximately 4 and 16 weeks after, regarding the clinical characteristics of their dystonia and headaches. Headaches were classified in accordance with the current International Classification of Headache Disorders. We used the Short Form-36 Health Survey, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, Headache Impact Test-6, Toronto Western Spasmodic Torticollis Rating Scale and McGill Pain Questionnaire. RESULTS: Nineteen patients (79.1%) presented with cervical dystonia associated with pain and 18 (75.0%) with headaches. The prevalence of headaches attributed to craniocervical dystonia was 29.2%; HIT-6: 60.1 ± 9.9. Patients with headaches presented significantly poorer TWSTRS pain scores, compared to patients with no headaches. Those with headaches attributed to craniocervical dystonia presented with more disability and demonstrated a significant improvement in the impact of headaches after BoNT-A injections, together with an improvement in the dystonia. CONCLUSIONS: Headaches are highly prevalent amongst cervical dystonia patients, have an impact on their quality of life and improves after BoNT-A injections. SIGNIFICANCE: We found that headaches are more frequent among patients with cervical dystonia than previously thought, and that they contribute towards an overall increase in pain in these patients. Headaches attributed to craniocervical dystonia are associated with greater disability among patients with cervical dystonia. These headaches improve after botulinum toxin injections, in parallel with the improvement of cervical dystonia symptoms.

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Introducción: La curación de las secuelas dentofaciales de la tortícolis congénita, una vez establecidas, solo puede lograrse mediante cirugías. La identificación temprana de los pacientes aquejados de esta dolencia y un tratamiento precoz es imprescindible, pues de ello dependerá la evolución a largo plazo de los mismos. Objetivo: Identificar los factores que pueden tener utilidad desde la perspectiva de la prevención primordial de la tortícolis congénita. Métodos: Se realizó una investigación observacional, longitudinal y prospectiva en pacientes con diagnóstico de tortícolis muscular congénita atendidos en el Policlínico de Especialidades del Hospital Infantil Sur de Santiago de Cuba, en el periodo de septiembre de 2016 a septiembre de 2018. La muestra fue de 20 pacientes con dicho diagnóstico. Las variables fueron agrupadas en clínicas e imagenológicas. Resultados: Predominaron los pacientes del sexo masculino, 14 casos (70 por ciento). El diagnóstico de la mayoría de los casos fue precoz, 3 (15 por ciento) en la etapa neonatal y 14 (70 por ciento) entre los 29 días y 6 meses. Las complicaciones más temidas tales como la asimetría facial, la deformidad plagiocefálica, la distopia orbitaria y auricular aparecieron sobre todo asociadas a un diagnóstico y tratamiento tardío. La tomografía axial computarizada solo superó a las radiografías para descubrir complicaciones neurológicas. Conclusiones: La atención a temprana edad es la mejor opción terapéutica para evitar complicaciones en niños con tortícolis muscular congénita(AU)

Introduction: Once established, dentofacial sequels of congenital torticollis can only be healed by surgery. Early identification of sufferers and timely treatment are indispensable to achieve a favorable long-term evolution. Objective: Identify potentially useful factors from the perspective of fundamental prevention of congenital torticollis. Methods: An observational longitudinal prospective study was conducted of patients diagnosed with congenital muscular torticollis attending the Secondary Care Polyclinic at the South Children's Hospital in Santiago de Cuba from September 2016 to September 2018. The sample was 20 patients diagnosed with the disease. The variables analyzed were grouped into clinical and imaging. Results: There was a predominance of male patients with 14 cases (70 percent). Diagnosis of most cases was performed early: 3 (15 percent) at the neonatal stage and 14 (70 percent) between 29 days and 6 months. The most feared complications, such as facial asymmetry, plagiocephalic deformity, and orbital and auricular dystopia, were mainly found to be associated to late diagnosis and treatment. Computed axial tomography only surpassed radiography in spotting neurological complications. Conclusions: Early care is the best therapeutic option to prevent complications in children with congenital muscular torticollis(AU)

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BACKGROUND: Craniocervical dystonia is a focal or segmental dystonia in its distribution, classically known as spasmodic torticollis when in its pure cervical presentation. Although craniocervical dystonia has been recognized as a possible cause of headache since the publication of the second version of International Classification of Headache Disorders, there are few studies about this entity. METHOD: This was a narrative review. RESULTS: Craniocervical dystonia was associated with muscle pain in 67-89% of the cases. Headaches of any kind affected approximately 60% of patients with craniocervical dystonia, and were located mainly in the occipital and cervical regions. Headache attributed to craniocervical dystonia specifically was rarely found, and it was described in only one patient out of 80 in one study. Treatment with botulinum neurotoxin is considered to be the first-line treatment for focal dystonias, including craniocervical dystonia, and besides reducing clinical severity, impairment, and pain scores among the patients with craniocervical dystonia, there were also descriptions of improvements in headaches attributed to craniocervical dystonia and other headaches associated with this dystonia. CONCLUSIONS: Headache attributed to craniocervical dystonia has been poorly studied. There is a need for more studies to evaluate its characteristics and treatment.

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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Sensory tricks are sensory, often but not exclusively tactile, stimuli usually in the body part affected by the movement disorder that produce a meaningful alleviation of dystonia. The frequency and clinical features of sensory tricks in different types of dystonia are poorly studied in the literature. There is no information regarding the presence of a similar phenomenon in HFS. METHODS: We enrolled consecutive patients who had the diagnosis of HFS (26) or the following types of dystonia: cervical dystonia (CD; 21); blepharospasm (BS; 20); and writer's cramp (WC; 10). Patients underwent a structured interview to assess the following items related to sensory trick: presence, type and effectiveness. Statistical analysis used the Verisimilitude Reason test and the significance level was set at 5%. RESULTS: Sensory trick was more frequent in the CD group (81%) when compared with HFS (38.5%; P=0.004) and WC (20%; P=0.001), but there was no statistical difference from the frequency in BS patients (55%; P=0.078). The most common sensory tricks were facial massage (60%) in HFS; to touch the head with the hands (35.3% in CD); to touch the upper eyelid with the index finger and thumb (81.8%) in BS; and to touch the hand with the contralateral hand (100%) in WC. CONCLUSIONS: Sensory tricks are common in all types of focal dystonia herein studied, although they are more frequent in CD. Patients with HFS also often display improvement of the movement disorder with tactile stimulation.

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La tortícolis se presenta como una manifestación focal del sistema nervioso central, y es una afección poco frecuente, aunque puede ser el síntoma inicial en patologías de la fosa posterior del cerebro. Se presenta el caso de un paciente masculino de cuatro años de edad, con antecedentes de dolor, lateralización y torsión del cuello con nueve meses de evolución, cuyos síntomas se mantuvieron progresando. Gradualmente se asocian cefalea, náuseas e inestabilidad a la marcha. Al realizar el examen físico se encontraron elementos clínicos de una tortícolis y un síndrome cerebeloso de hemicuerpo derecho. Se realizó una resonancia magnética nuclear de cráneo, la cual evidenció una lesión sólida que ocupaba todo el piso del IV ventrículo, y se extendía hasta el segundo segmento medular cervical. Se efectuó abordaje quirúrgico de la fosa posterior del cerebro y exeresis de la lesión. El diagnóstico histológico fue el de un ependimoma. Aunque la tortícolis la mayoría de las ocasiones es una condición benigna, cuando se presenta secundariamente en los niños, uno de los diagnósticos diferenciales que deben tenerse en cuenta, son los tumores de la fosa posterior del cerebro, como ocurrió en este caso

Torticollis is presented as a focal demonstration of the central nervous system, and it is a rare condition, but it may be the initial symptom in diseases of the posterior fossa brain. We report the case of a male patient aged four, with a history of pain, lateralization and twisted neck with nine months of evolution, whose symptoms were progressing. Gradually, headache, nausea and gait instability are associated. When performing the physical examination, we found clinical elements of a stiff neck and a right hemisphere cerebellar syndrome. We performed a cranial MRI, which showed a solid lesion occupying the entire floor of the fourth ventricle, and it extended to the second cervical spinal segment. Surgical approach was performed in the posterior fossa and brain tumor excision. Ependymoma was the histological diagnosis. Though most occasions, torticollis is a benign condition, when it occurs secondarily in children, one of the differential diagnoses that should be considered is the posterior fossa tumors of the brain, as in this case

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Botulinum toxin (BTX) is the best therapeutic option inpatients with cervical dystonia (CD), but physical therapy (PT) can be added to the treatment to achieve better results. Forty of our 70 patients with CD were en-rolled in a controlled open study. Subjects were divided into two groups: G1 (intervention group comprising patients receiving BTX and PT) and G2 (control group comprising patients receiving BTX only). Both groups were assessed using the Toronto Western Spasmodic Torticollis Rating Scale (TWSTRS) and the 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36). On the TWSTRS, significant improvements in disease severity were seen in G1 and G2 but significant improvements on the pain and disability subscales were seen only in G1 patients.There was a significant difference only on the pain sub-scale between G2 and G1 following treatment. An analysis of the physical aspects of SF-36 showed significant improvement in G1 on three subscales. An intergroup difference was also seen on two subscales.Regarding emotional aspects, G1 showed a significant improvement on three subscales. A significant difference on two subscales was also seen between G2 and G1 following treatment. BTX plus PT treatment achieved symptom relief in patients with CD and improved their quality of life.

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