Question

Some newborns are born with good feeding and sleeping conditions. However, after about twenty days after birth, the mother notices a hard lump on the right side of the baby’s neck, resembling the texture of bone, while there is no such phenomenon on the left side. Does this suggest that the baby may have torticollis? Is torticollis in newborns a common condition?

Answer

Torticollis in infants is indeed a common disease during infancy. For cases of torticollis, timely pediatric examination, diagnosis, and treatment should be carried out. Currently, the most common method used to examine neck displacement in infants is ultrasound. For patients with more complex conditions, laboratory tests and imaging examinations may be required. The diagnosis of infant cervical curvature not only relies on clear examination results but also needs to differentiate from related diseases such as abnormal eye muscles, neck inflammation, and skeletal neck deviation.