Bipolar Surgical Release in Congenital Muscular Torticollis

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Brief Summary: The congenital muscular torticollis is common disease in children.The indication for surgery is the children have persist deformity after 1 year old.Many surgical treatment had proposed such as unipolar release and bipolar release.By author experience the bipolar release had better results from complete cut the muscle both origin and insertion.This study wants to study the results of treatment in term of recurrence of the deformity.

Detailed Description: the study perform in children with congenital muscular torticollis

Recruitment & Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria

1. all children age ranged from 5-15 years old who received the surgical treatment by bipolar release in the hospital.

Exclusion Criteria

1. no history of surgery at the neck 2. no history of congenital anomalies and syndrome that effect the neck

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
children who had bipolar release	bipolar release	children who had bipolar release are included

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
ImageJ scoring system	no torticollis after 1 year of surgery	measurement from pictures of head and face compared to normal children score 1-3 in 5 measurement in total score of 15 as interval scale score has 4 grade 13-15 is excellent results score 10-12 good result 7-9 fair less than 6 score is poor result after surgery

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method

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