Microcurrent therapy is completely painless and children can only feel the probe from the machine on their skin.Microcurrent therapy is thought to increase ATP and protein synthesis as well as enhance blood flow, reduce muscle spasms and decrease pain along with inflammation. It should be used in addition to regular stretching exercises and ultrasound diathermy. Ultrasound diathermy generates heat deep within body tissues to help with contractures, pain and muscle spasms as well as decrease inflammation. This combination of treatments shows remarkable outcomes in the duration of time children are kept in rehabilitation programs: Micocurrent therapy can cut the length of a rehabilitation program almost in half with a full recovery seen after 2.6 months.About 5–10% of cases fail to respond to stretching and require surgical release of the muscle. Surgery
Surgical release involves the two heads of the sternocleidomastoid muscle being dissected free. This surgery can be minimally invasive and done laparoscopically. Usually surgery is performed on those who are over 12 months old. The surgery is for those who do not respond to physical therapy or botulinum toxin injection or have a very fibrotic sternocleidomastoid muscle. After surgery the child will be required to wear a soft neck collar (also called a Callots cast).
Torticollis, also known as wry neck, is a dystonic condition defined by an abnormal, asymmetrical head or neck position, which may be due to a variety of causes. The term torticollis is derived from the Latin words tortus for twisted and collum for neck.The most common case has no obvious cause, and the pain and difficulty with turning the head usually goes away after a few days, even without treatment in adults. Signs and symptoms
Torticollis is a fixed or dynamic tilt, rotation, with flexion or extension of the head and/or neck. The type of torticollis can be described depending on the positions of the head and neck. laterocollis: the head is tipped toward the shoulder
rotational torticollis: the head rotates along the longitudinal  axis
anterocollis: forward flexion of the head and neck
retrocollis: hyperextension of head and neck backwardA combination of these movements may often be observed. Torticollis can be a disorder in itself as well as a symptom in other conditions. Other symptoms include:
Neck pain
Occasional formation of a mass
Thickened or tight sternocleidomastoid muscle
Tenderness on the cervical spine
Tremor in head
Unequal shoulder heights
Decreased neck movement

Causes
A multitude of conditions may lead to the development of torticollis including: muscular fibrosis, congenital spine abnormalities, or toxic or traumatic brain injury. A rough categorization discerns between congenital torticollis and acquired torticollis.Other categories include:
Osseous
Traumatic
CNS/PNS
Ocular
Non-muscular soft tissue
Spasmodic
Drug induced
Oral ties (lip and tongue ties)

Congenital muscular torticollis
The congenital muscular torticollis is the most common torticollis which is present at birth. The cause of congenital muscular torticollis is unclear.