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R Bahnof

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PubMed1999

Focal, steroid responsive myositis causing dropped head syndrome.

The dropped head syndrome, which occurs in a variety of neuromuscular disorders, is usually not due to an inflammatory process and generally either self-limited or nonresponsive to therapy. We present an 80-year-old woman who developed progressive neck weakness over a few months due to a focal and restricted inflammatory process involving the neck extensor muscles. She responded dramatically to treatment with immunosuppressive therapy.

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PubMed1999

The dropped head syndrome: rehabilitation of cervical focal myositis.

PURPOSE/METHOD: This paper reports on a process of intensive physiotherapy used to treat severe dysfunction caused by dropped head syndrome, a rare clinicopathological entity, in which the sufferer is not able to hold the head upright, so that it falls forward and the chin lies permanently on the chest. This, in turn, causes severe impairment of the activities of daily life and of social intercourse. RESULTS/OUTCOMES: The medical treatment of an 80 year-old woman with this syndrome was supplemented with a 6-month course (four times a week) of manual physiotherapy, and the combined success of the two approaches enabled her to resume management of her home and return to her social life.

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