Infants with torticollis: The relationship between asymmetric head and neck positioning and postural development

Physical and Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 91-117

  Hylton, Nancy ^a  

^a Children's Therapy Center of Kent   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY POSTURE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; INFANT; MUSCLE INJURY; PERINATAL PERIOD; REVIEW; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; SUPINE POSITION; TORTICOLLIS;

EID: 0030857808     PISSN: 01942638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J006v17n02_06     Document Type: Review

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