Master the massage techniques for congenital torticollis

I believe that everyone will quickly understand the term congenital torticollis when they hear it. To put it simply, congenital torticollis means that the baby suffers from a crooked neck from the moment he is born. But this is just our common saying, as long as everyone can understand it, it's fine. Now, most of the methods to treat congenital torticollis are manual massage, and manual massage must be done in a proper way and accurately to cure this disease. So today we will take a detailed look at how to master the techniques to treat this disease.

Treatment of congenital torticollis mainly includes local massage:

1. Common techniques

(1) The child lies in supine position with his head facing the parent, and talcum powder is used as a medium. The parent sits in front of the bed, supports the child's neck and occipital area with one hand, and uses the thumb of the other hand to massage the sternocleidomastoid muscle on the affected side for 5 minutes.

(2) Pinch the lump in the sternocleidomastoid muscle on the affected side carefully with the thumb, middle finger, and index finger. Increase the force slightly, as if you were squeezing a lump, but alternate with gentle kneading to prevent the child from crying violently. The duration is 2 minutes.

(3) Hold the affected shoulder with one hand and the top of the child's head with the other hand, and gradually tilt the child's head toward the healthy shoulder to stretch the sternoclavicle and fasciculus muscles. Repeat this operation 5 times.

(4) Then massage the area to relax for 5 minutes.

Massage method 2

(1) The child lies in a supine position. The parent supports the child's neck with one hand and uses the index, middle, and ring fingers of the other hand to massage the sternocleidomastoid muscle on the affected side for 10 minutes.

(2) The parent supports the child’s head and neck with one hand and the mandibular body with the other. The parent should gently stretch and shake the child along the longitudinal axis of the cervical spine with both hands, and gently rotate the child toward the affected side. Repeat twice.

For children under two months old, as long as they insist on daily local massage and pay attention to correcting the child's head position in daily life, the symptoms will generally disappear after three months. If massage is ineffective, you must wait until the child is seven or eight months old to perform surgery. That is, the swollen part of the diseased sternocleidomastoid muscle must be cut off to fully loosen the muscle's pulling restriction on the neck. At the same time, in order to prevent adhesion, about two centimeters of the sternocleidomastoid muscle must be cut off.

In fact, among the children he treated with local massage, there were no cases of failure. Generally, the symptoms disappeared after three months of massage and no surgery was needed.

As for the specific massage method, there is no need to use hot water. Just pinch the lump on the child's neck with your fingers and massage gently. Press 200 times twice a day.

Well, after reading the above detailed explanation of the massage techniques for congenital torticollis, I believe that only those who read it carefully can master this massage technique. After reading the above explanation, what I want to say is that parents must pay attention to whether their children have symptoms of torticollis, because it is a congenital symptom and will accompany the child from the moment he is born. Those who are about to become parents should work harder to learn this massage technique in case they need it in the future, just as a precaution. Well, I hope that the massage techniques for congenital torticollis explained above can help everyone!