Facial Asymmetry
Q. My child's head is always tilted to one side. Is it all right to leave it?
A.
Where the head tilts, the body is often twisted along with it. During the growth years, we would have it checked once.
📝 Detailed Answer
A head tilted to one side is usually a sign not of the neck vertebrae alone, but that the whole body shape is twisted along with it.
Where there is postural imbalance during the growth years, the growth plates may not be stimulated evenly, and muscle and bone can grow differently on the left and right. So it is better to have it checked while a child is young.
That said, children often hold such a posture only temporarily. Look at whether the tilt is always to the same side in photographs, and whether the shoulder heights or the pelvis are tilted along with it, and judge from that.
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