Congenital muscular torticollis. A long-term follow-up.

It has been reported that congenital muscular torticollis (CMT) may result in secondary scoliosis over long-term follow-ups. However, there are few reports on whether CMT causes pelvic malalignment syndrome (PMS). This study aimed to investigate the relationship between CMT and PMS and to determine the factors associated with the development of PMS in children with longstanding CMT. Medical records of 130 children with CMT who had long-term follow-up were reviewed retrospectively. The chi-squared test and logistic regression analysis were used to determine which initial clinical parameters contributed to the development of PMS. Among 130 children with CMT, 51 (39.2%) developed PMS with or without compensatory scoliosis during long-term follow-up, indicating a high prevalence of PMS in children with a CMT history. Initial clinical symptoms such as a limited range of motion of the neck or the presence of a neck mass could not predict the development of PMS. Even if the clinical symptoms are mild, long-term follow-up of children with CMT is essential to screen for PMS.

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Congenital muscular torticollis: long-term follow-up of thirty-eight partial resections of the sternocleidomastoid muscle

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery ◽

10.1007/bf00451875 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 112 (5) ◽

pp. 205-209 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

H. Akazawa ◽

Y. Nakatsuka ◽

Y. Miyake ◽

Y. Takahashi

Keyword(s):

Sternocleidomastoid Muscle ◽

Congenital Muscular Torticollis ◽

Long Term Follow Up ◽

Muscular Torticollis

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Long-Term Neurodevelopmental Follow-Up of Children With Congenital Muscular Torticollis

Journal of Child Neurology ◽

10.1177/0883073812455693 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 28 (10) ◽

pp. 1215-1221 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Mitchell Schertz ◽

Luba Zuk ◽

Dido Green

Keyword(s):

Congenital Muscular Torticollis ◽

Muscular Torticollis

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Therapy and prevention for mental health: What if mental diseases are mostly not brain disorders?

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x1800105x ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 42 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

John P. A. Ioannidis

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Mental Disease ◽

Brain Disorders ◽

Social Stressors ◽

Labor Education ◽

Mental Diseases ◽

Long Term Follow Up ◽

Political Decisions

AbstractNeurobiology-based interventions for mental diseases and searches for useful biomarkers of treatment response have largely failed. Clinical trials should assess interventions related to environmental and social stressors, with long-term follow-up; social rather than biological endpoints; personalized outcomes; and suitable cluster, adaptive, and n-of-1 designs. Labor, education, financial, and other social/political decisions should be evaluated for their impacts on mental disease.

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