Skip to main content
NCBI home page
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry logoLink to Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry
. 1981 Nov;44(11):1029–1034. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.44.11.1029

Postural laterality in torticollis and torsion dystonia.

L Stejskal, Z Tománek
PMCID: PMC491208  PMID: 7334390

Abstract

Tests of postural rotational laterality were carried out in 63 patients suffering from torticollis (53) or torsion dystonia with torticollis (10) and in 33 normal subjects. There was a correlation between the predominant direction of postural functions and the direction of the rotatory component of torticollis. Torticollis and torsion dystonia may be due to the release of a postural rotational laterality in pre-disposed subjects and not to a presumed asymmetric lesion of the brain-stem.

Full text

PDF
1029

Images in this article

1030Image
on p.1030
1031Image
on p.1031
1032Image
on p.1032

Selected References

These references are in PubMed. This may not be the complete list of references from this article.

  1. ARSENI C., SANDOR G. [A clinical-statistical analysis of 50 operated cases of torticollis spasticus]. Zentralbl Neurochir. 1960;20:91–97. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  2. BARNETT S. A. Displacement behaviour and psychosomatic disorder. Lancet. 1955 Dec 10;269(6902):1203–1208. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(55)92999-8. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  3. Bösch J. Nachuntersuchungen nach Schiefhalsoperationen über einen Zietraum von 27 Jahren. Wien Klin Wochenschr. 1972 Oct 20;84(42):688–690. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  4. Hamby W. B., Schiffer S. Spasmodic torticollis: results after cervical rhizotomy in 50 cases. J Neurosurg. 1969 Sep;31(3):323–326. doi: 10.3171/jns.1969.31.3.0323. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  5. Hassler R., Dieckmann G. Stereotactic treatment of different kinds of spasmodic torticollis. Confin Neurol. 1970;32(2):135–143. doi: 10.1159/000103408. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  6. Hrbek J., Komenda S., Macáková J., Siroká A., Medek A., Navrátil J. Acute effect of methaqualone (100 mg), nortriptyline (50 mg) and amitriptyline (50 mg) on verbal associations. Act Nerv Super (Praha) 1975 Mar;17(1):55–56. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  7. Ling C. M., Low Y. S. Sternomastoid tumor and muscular torticollis. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 1972 Jul-Aug;86:144–150. doi: 10.1097/00003086-197207000-00020. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  8. Macdonald D. Sternomastoid tumour and muscular torticollis. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 1969 Aug;51(3):432–443. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  9. SOLCHER H. Uber einen Fall von überstandener fötaler Kohlenoxydvergiftung. J Hirnforsch. 1957;3(1):49–55. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  10. Sorensen B. F., Hamby W. B. Spasmodic torticollis. Results in 71 surgically treated patients. JAMA. 1965 Nov 15;194(7):706–708. doi: 10.1001/jama.194.7.706. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  11. THOMPSON W. R., MELZACK R., SCOTT T. H. Whirling behavior in dogs as related to early experience. Science. 1956 May 25;123(3204):939–939. doi: 10.1126/science.123.3204.939. [DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  12. Tarlov E. On the problem of the pathology of spasmodic torticollis in man. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1970 Aug;33(4):457–463. doi: 10.1136/jnnp.33.4.457. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
  13. Zeman W., Dyken P. Dystonia musculorum deformans. Clinical, genetic and pathoanatomical studies. Psychiatr Neurol Neurochir. 1967 Mar-Apr;70(2):77–121. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]

Articles from Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry are provided here courtesy of BMJ Publishing Group

RESOURCES