Pediatrics : the hygienic and medical treatment of children . Acute rheumatic torticollis. Fifth day of attack SYMPTOMS.—Pain on movement and tenderness and stiffnessof certain muscles are the typical symptoms. Fever is rarely pain is at times quite severe, shght movements of the muscltesbringing on sharp exacerbations. Certain names have been givenaccording to the group of muscles affected, such as cervicodynia, oracute torticollis, when the process is located in the muscles of theneck; pleurodynia when in the intercostal muscles; lumbago when in Muscular Dystrophies 395 the lumba
Pediatrics : the hygienic and medical treatment of children . Acute rheumatic torticollis. Fifth day of attack SYMPTOMS.—Pain on movement and tenderness and stiffnessof certain muscles are the typical symptoms. Fever is rarely pain is at times quite severe, shght movements of the muscltesbringing on sharp exacerbations. Certain names have been givenaccording to the group of muscles affected, such as cervicodynia, oracute torticollis, when the process is located in the muscles of theneck; pleurodynia when in the intercostal muscles; lumbago when in Muscular Dystrophies 395 the lumbar muscles; cephalodynia when in the muscles of the head;scapulodynia and omodynia when in the muscles of the shoulder. The disease may be acute or chronic, the acute cases recoveringin a few days. The chronic cases may persist for weeks, often lead-ing to increase in the connective tissue, producing muscular stiffnessand contractures. DIAGNOSIS.—The diagnosis is to be made from pleurisy by theabsence of physical signs and by the pain and muscular tender
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