TORTICOLLIS
Disease information
TORTICOLLIS
Well - known malaise also like distonía focal and tortícolis
spasmodic
, is characterized to have prolonged contractions and
muscular
espasmos
in the muscles of the neck, that prevent the movement and cause much pain.
The main affected
muscle
is the esternocleidomastoideo, that includes the neck, shoulders and the high part of the chest and back.
The
problem
is generated of sudden form when this
muscle
is contracted involuntarily and caused that the head inclines and the capacity is lost momentarily to turn it or to move it.
One is not due to confuse with
a
twist, that generally is
a
automilitada affection, is to say that it disappears of the same mysterious form as one appeared. Also some sporadic cases of tortícolis appear that they can be related to excessive
stress
that causes the rigidity of muscles, the type of work or
a
bad
position
when sleeping, writing or to seat.
Many occasions appear what
injury
by latigazo "in the neck is called", that happens when we turned around quickly or we make some very abrupt movement with the neck. In some cases, discinesia delayed, also can affect the neck. This upheaval of the movement happens when antipsicóticos medicamos are consumed powerful.
Tortícolis, however appears little by little, at the beginning of intermittent form
but
it is worsened until the affected muscles are contracted of
chronic
form and the pain, the rigidity and the abnormal
position
of the body is inevitable.
IMPORTANT:
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charge
on its use.
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