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What is the best treatment for torticoli massage or make it warm or excessive exercises to make the muscles relax ?
Aug 12, 2014
Torticollis is a painful muscle spasm in the neck that pulls the head to one side while also turning the chin to the opposite side.
Symptoms include difficulty turning the head and headache. While about 1 percent of cases are congenital, torticollis is more often due to muscle or nerve damage.
Massage is one of the effective treatments for acute torticollis.
If torticollis becomes chronic it can cause impingement of nerves in the neck, leading to numbness and tingling in the hand and arm on the affected side.
Because torticollis can also be due to a cervical tumor, abscess, herniated cervical disk or infected tonsils, as well as neurological disorders, it is important to see your doctor for an evaluation. Once your doctor has ruled out non-muscular causes for torticollis, massage can be used to help relieve the spasm and pain.
The muscle most often involved in torticollis is the sternocleidomastoid muscle. The sternocleidomastoid muscle both turns your head and tilts the head to the side.
>>Treatment includes combination of heat, gentle massage, traction and passive stretching to relax the tissues of your neck.
It focuses on stretching and mobilizing the sternocleidomastoid muscle.
TREATMENT INCLUDES:
>Medications include nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), benzodiazepines and other muscle relaxants, anticholinergics, and local intramuscular injections of botulinum toxin
>Massage and physical therapy
>When conservative treatment measures fail, patients may undergo brain stimulation procedures, a sternocleidomastoid release, selective denervation, or dorsal cord stimulation.
THESE ARE STEPS OF A GOOD PLAN TREATMENT MASSAGE:
Your massage therapist will begin the massage with slow, gentle stretching and kneading to all the tissues of your neck: the skin, connective tissues and muscles.
The goal is to stretch and relax the superficial tissues first and then slowly work more deeply, softening and stretching each layer of tissue and muscle.
Then she will turn her focus to the sternocleidomastoid muscle, using fingertips, knuckles or palm to stretch the muscle lengthwise and crosswise, taking care not to press the carotid artery.
As the neck muscles relax, the massage therapist will start stretching your neck and attempt to move it in its full range of motion. She will pull your neck gently to stretch the fibers of the painful muscle, and hold it in that position for a few seconds and then stretch the same muscle on the opposite side of the neck. She may ask you to tighten the painful muscle, providing resistance with her hand, and then stretch it even farther when you relax the muscle.
When your neck muscles are more relaxed and soft, your massage therapist will do some detailed searching for trigger points, which are tightened nodules of muscle fiber, usually the most painful spots in the muscle. Pressing and holding each trigger point will help it relax.
After your massage, apply alternating hot and cold packs to your neck. Apply heat for about 10 minutes and follow it with a cold pack for another 10 minutes. You can use hot and cold packs several times a day. Gentle stretching exercises will help to keep the muscle relaxed.
So treatment is a combination therapy all together medication with physical therapy for the best effect and lasting over if failed there is the surgery option .
Symptoms include difficulty turning the head and headache. While about 1 percent of cases are congenital, torticollis is more often due to muscle or nerve damage.
Massage is one of the effective treatments for acute torticollis.
If torticollis becomes chronic it can cause impingement of nerves in the neck, leading to numbness and tingling in the hand and arm on the affected side.
Because torticollis can also be due to a cervical tumor, abscess, herniated cervical disk or infected tonsils, as well as neurological disorders, it is important to see your doctor for an evaluation. Once your doctor has ruled out non-muscular causes for torticollis, massage can be used to help relieve the spasm and pain.
The muscle most often involved in torticollis is the sternocleidomastoid muscle. The sternocleidomastoid muscle both turns your head and tilts the head to the side.
>>Treatment includes combination of heat, gentle massage, traction and passive stretching to relax the tissues of your neck.
It focuses on stretching and mobilizing the sternocleidomastoid muscle.
TREATMENT INCLUDES:
>Medications include nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), benzodiazepines and other muscle relaxants, anticholinergics, and local intramuscular injections of botulinum toxin
>Massage and physical therapy
>When conservative treatment measures fail, patients may undergo brain stimulation procedures, a sternocleidomastoid release, selective denervation, or dorsal cord stimulation.
THESE ARE STEPS OF A GOOD PLAN TREATMENT MASSAGE:
Your massage therapist will begin the massage with slow, gentle stretching and kneading to all the tissues of your neck: the skin, connective tissues and muscles.
The goal is to stretch and relax the superficial tissues first and then slowly work more deeply, softening and stretching each layer of tissue and muscle.
Then she will turn her focus to the sternocleidomastoid muscle, using fingertips, knuckles or palm to stretch the muscle lengthwise and crosswise, taking care not to press the carotid artery.
As the neck muscles relax, the massage therapist will start stretching your neck and attempt to move it in its full range of motion. She will pull your neck gently to stretch the fibers of the painful muscle, and hold it in that position for a few seconds and then stretch the same muscle on the opposite side of the neck. She may ask you to tighten the painful muscle, providing resistance with her hand, and then stretch it even farther when you relax the muscle.
When your neck muscles are more relaxed and soft, your massage therapist will do some detailed searching for trigger points, which are tightened nodules of muscle fiber, usually the most painful spots in the muscle. Pressing and holding each trigger point will help it relax.
After your massage, apply alternating hot and cold packs to your neck. Apply heat for about 10 minutes and follow it with a cold pack for another 10 minutes. You can use hot and cold packs several times a day. Gentle stretching exercises will help to keep the muscle relaxed.
So treatment is a combination therapy all together medication with physical therapy for the best effect and lasting over if failed there is the surgery option .
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