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Cervical dystonia, also called spasmodic torticollis, is a painful condition in which your neck muscles contract involuntarily, causing your head to twist to one side.— All MayoClinic.com Topics
Eight-three percent of the infants were reported to have a head positional preference, with 42.6 percent of those infants diagnosed with torticollis (the head leans to one side due to contracted neck muscles on that side) as the reason for the head positional preference.— PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
It is termed torticollis or cervical rheumatism in such cases, and should be distinguished from ordinary neuralgia.— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
Pickles, mustard, etc., are best let alone MUSCULAR RHEUMATISM.--This is a very painful affection of the voluntary muscles, called also neuralgia, or according to its location, torticollis (stiff neck, wry neck), pleurodynia, lumbago (rheumatism in the back Causes.--Predisposed to it by previous attacks, having a rheumatic or gouty constitution (diathesis).— Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada
When the torticollis attitude has been corrected in childhood, the asymmetry of the skull disappears.— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
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