The effectiveness and safety of conservative interventions for positional plagiocephaly and congenital muscular torticollis: a synthesis of systematic reviews and guidance

Table 8 Summary Clinical Guideline recommendations congenital muscular torticollis

Recommendations	USA American Physical Therapy Association 2018^a
Physiotherapy / Physical therapy	✓
Home exercise (eg passive stretching)	✓
Positioning (e.g. tummy time)	✓
Handling / feeding	✓
Education	✓
Botulinum	N/A (consider specialist referral if no response to PT treatment)
Surgery	N/A (consider specialist referral if no response to PT treatment)

^aUSA: American Physical Therapy Association (Kaplan et al. 2018) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30277962

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