[The clinico-electromyographic characteristics of spastic torticollis].

The aim of the study was the investigation of central and peripheral pathogenetic mechanisms of torticollis spasmodic. It was examined 68 patients-37 with left pathology and 31-with right one. Electromyograms (EMG) were registered in m. sternocleidomastoideus at rest and under postural loadings (at sitting and lying position of patients). Statistically significant differences were found in the pattern of EMG in connection of the side of torticollis. In the case of the left side of pathology EMG changes were presumably in "participating" muscle, in the right disorders-in "participating" muscle as well as in "nonparticipating" one (this change can be compensatory reaction which direct to the correction of a torsion).