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.
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