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What causes the tightness or shortening of the neck muscle? Some times a traumatic birth injury causes stretching and scaring of the neck muscle. Congenital infant torticollis can also be caused by babyâs position in the womb. Torticollis is more common in situations where there is lack of space in the womb. For example with multiple births or when there is little amniotic fluid.
Unlike many health conditions that develop silently inside the body, pediatric torticollis is easy to see from the outside. You can recognize it when your childâs head persistently tilts to one side. The word âtorticollisâ itself comes from two Latin root words, âtortusâ and âcollum,â that together mean âtwisted neck.â This condition, sometimes called wryneck, is relatively common in children.