Stupnytska S. Physical Rehabilitation of First-Year Children with Innate Muscular Torticollis.

Object physical rehabilitation of children with disorders of the musculoskeletal system; aim ? improve the physical rehabilitation of children the first year of life with congenital muscular torticollis; methods: theoretical analysis and generalization of scientific and methodological literature on the issue of physical rehabilitation in congenital muscular torticollis, sociological methods (questionnaires), clinical and laboratory methods (analysis of outpatient cards, visual inspection, palpation, determine the angle of inclination of the head, the distance between akromialnym and mastoid spikes in the lateral bending in the cervical spine, neck extension, rotation of the cervical spine, surface bioelectric potentials sternocleidomastoid muscles of the neck), pedagogical supervision and pedagogical experiment, methods of mathematical statistics; novelty - founded the first means of identification of physical rehabilitation of infants with congenital muscular torticollis; developed by a sequence of rehabilitation examination by applying the algorithm visual inspection; developed a set of parameters of the status of the mobility of the cervical spine infants in different age periods; results - program of physical rehabilitation of children the first year of life with congenital muscular torticollis, practical advice for parents, the basis for the creation of Ukraine's first rehabilitation center for children with congenital and acquired forms of torticollis, is presented in the Textbook "Physical rehabilitation of children the first year of life congenital muscular torticollis and practically used in the rehabilitation, diagnostic divisions of Lviv City children's Hospital, clinic number 2, the first city hospital; industry - physical rehabilitation.