Abstract:Clinical signs of systemic connective tissue dysplasia in children with acute and recurrent torticollis were studied. 225 clinical cases were analyzed. The predominance of joint hypermobility and asthenic physique in the group of children with recurrent torticollis was revealed and proved by the medical statistics methods. In this group, such skeletal clinical forms as flat-valgus deformity of the feet, kyphosis, scoliosis were observed.
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