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Spasms of this straplike muscle often result in wryneck or torticollis?
The sternocleidomastoid muscle in the neck. Injury also called a wry neck.
What is the medical term meaning wryneck?
Torticollis is the medical term meaning wryneck. Torticollis is a type of spasm of the neck that bends it into an unnatural position. Torticollis is a type of focal Dystonia, which is a neurological disorder of the basal ganglia in the brain.The medical term for wryneck is torticollis, which is a stiff neck due to muscle spasm.
What you call when a muscle contracts involuntarily?
cardiac and smooth
Can a muscle strain or spasm result in a bruise?
Yes it can if the muscle fibres are ruptured
What massage technique can help relieve muscle spasm?
The recommended way of relieving a muscle spasm is a muscle-energy technique called reciprocal inhibition. What you do is have the person with the spasm contract the antagonist muscle(s) related to the ones in spasm. Works like a charm.
What is A stiff neck due to a spasmodic contraction of the neck muscles?
Also known as a wry neck, spasmodic torticollis is a stiff neck due to spasmodic contraction of the neck muscle. The spasm causes the head to be pulled toward the affected side.
What is loss of normal cervical lordosis consistent with muscle spasm?
What is loss of the normal cervical lordosis consistent with muscle spasm?
What is it called when a muscle contract involuntarily?
A twitch is when only one muscle is affected, usually the result of a nerve impulse, while a spasm is when multiple muscles contract involuntary, due to a chemical imbalance.
What is a sentence for spasm?
He ran so far his leg muscle went into a spasm.
What triggers a spasm?
a muscle spasm occurs when the muscles have been tense for a long period of time and then you make a sudden movement and it causes it to spasm. I have suffered with muscle spasm's in my back for about a year now due to a back injury and this is what my doctor has told me, it can be treated with diazapam to relax the muscle's.
Explain a muscle spasm in terms of recruitment of muscle fibers?
A muscle spasm is the spontaneous recruitment of muscle fibers. The resulting contraction is usually painful, but it typically resolves very quickly.
How do you spell spasim?
The word for an involuntary muscle movement is "spasm".
