Thirty years ago I developed a disorder that was unheard of around here. Now, perhaps, some 200,000 men and women across the country have been diagnosed with it and are eager to make the general ...

This week we are going to discuss a relatively rare but painful condition called cervical dystonia or spasmodic torticollis. Cervical dystonia is a condition of adulthood that generally occurs after ...

This week we are going to talk about a rather rare and painful condition of the neck which occurs at any time in life although the National Spasmodic Torticollis Association reports that it most ...

Torticollis refers to a condition in which the sternocleidomastoid muscle is shorter (and sometimes tighter) on one side of the neck, causing the head to tilt toward the shortened muscle, while at the ...

Read in part at the March meeting of the Essex South Division of the Massachusetts Medical Sociiety, and presented by title at the May Meeting of the American Orthopedic Association in Boston.