TORTICOLLIS EXPERT
Intensive Course on Congenital Muscular Torticollis
2nd Edition
We provide you with a clear, step-by-step strategy that allows you to intervene effectively from evaluation to treatment and family education.
Learn to intervene with confidence, solid clinical reasoning, and real results from day one.
This course is for you if you work with babies and have ever wondered how to approach torticollis without feeling like you are improvising.
The problem:
Many professionals approach congenital muscular torticollis without a clear strategy. This leads to longer treatments, family frustration, and slow results.
This course changes that: it gives you a structured, practical system that improves the baby’s progression from the very first sessions.
Become an expert clinician in infant care with this specialty course
Torticollis PRO
A specialized course with a duration of two months.
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However, you can complete it at your own pace, as it is a lifetime program. You will have access forever.
Updated Online Format
This is a 100% online course. You will have your own personal area to access all block videos and materials.
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In addition, Torticollis EXPERT is periodically updated to ensure the quality and effectiveness of intervention strategies.
Tutored and supported
You will periodically have webinars for questions and clinical cases.
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The sessions will be recorded and uploaded to the platform so that you have additional learning material.
+500 clinicians trained in the 1st edition
Content included in the best Pediatric Physiotherapy Master’s programs in Europe
Find out if Torticollis EXPERT is for you
Experienced physiotherapists, kinesiologists, and pediatricians
You are an experienced professional, but you want better results and stronger clinical reasoning.
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…even though you handle many techniques, you know you lack structure—a model that helps you think logically, connect symptoms with real causes, and make decisions with confidence, without relying on fixed protocols or intuition; you are looking to stop improvising, better understand what you do, and have the certainty that every intervention has a clear rationale.
Professionals who want to enter pediatrics
You do not yet have extensive experience, but you have strong motivation to enter this fascinating field of pediatrics.
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…you feel curiosity, a desire to learn, and a genuine motivation to help the youngest patients through a professional and well-founded approach; you are looking for clear training that teaches you to observe, reason, and act with clinical criteria from the beginning, without getting lost in scattered information, in order to build a safe, coherent practice with real impact on children’s lives.
Professionals committed to giving their very best to babies and families
You do not settle for what you have been told. You know you can achieve much better results, and in less time.
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…that is why you are looking for a deeper and more structured approach, one that helps you better understand what you do, reason with clinical logic, and achieve real change without relying on generic recipes. You want to know exactly why you do each intervention, and ensure it has a real impact on the lives of your patients and their families.
Learn the 4 keys to achieving clear results in congenital muscular torticollis
Iñaki Pastor and the international TMPI team have developed 4 essential keys that ensure results.
Improve your outcomes with simpler and more precise clinical reasoning in infant cervical problems
Your results do not depend strictly on how many times you stretch the sternocleidomastoid muscle, nor even on how many times the baby is treated per week in physiotherapy.
What matters is understanding and knowing how to analyze the baby’s cervical behavior, so that you can identify the type of torticollis and the musculoskeletal or motor control component involved. In addition, you must be able to quickly recognize red flags that indicate the need for caution.
With Torticollis Expert, you will acquire new skills and techniques so that results are faster and longer-lasting.
Evaluate in detail
Precise anamnesis and an organized system of clinical tests to understand how the baby functions: neurodevelopment, cervical, visual, orofacial, and motor functions.
Analyze with clarity
Clear organization of clinical data with solid and structured clinical reasoning. A well-defined plan for work both in the clinic and at home.
Intervene with the baby
Comfortable, precise, and above all safe manual therapy to gain passive mobility. Stimulation and re-education to improve active mobility and the baby’s overall functioning.
Organize the environment
Clear and effective recommendations for the family. Support through deliverable educational materials. Well-structured home exercises and modifications to environmental factors that can either enhance or cancel out your results.
Discover safe and effective treatment techniques
We teach you the two types of intervention that make the difference in congenital muscular torticollis.
Phase #1 Pediatric manual therapy
Manual treatment of tissues, muscles, and neuromeningeal tension is essential to gain passive mobility. We provide you with multiple techniques to release tissues, improve innervation, and enhance joint movement.
Stretching, the typical treatment, is reviewed and updated, and in addition we offer technical options that are much gentler yet also more effective for achieving the range of motion the baby needs. There is no need to suffer to gain mobility.
Phase #2 Exercises and re-education
We include direct techniques to address inclination, which is the most difficult and most treatment-resistant component. We provide very comprehensive techniques to stimulate active mobility, as well as re-education strategies to work on the baby’s cervical righting responses and prone positioning.
The course also includes vestibular stimulation exercises that are fundamental for the baby’s neurodevelopment and muscle tone.
Physiotherapists and kinesiologists are already TORTICOLLIS EXPERTS
This is what clinicians from the first edition achieved
“Don’t hesitate, because it’s worth it. It’s a course that supports you throughout the entire process.”
“Today I apply all the clinical reasoning from the course in my practice — it changed the way I evaluate and treat.”
“This course gives you a different perspective and better results. If you’re looking for more in your treatments, you’ll find it here.”
“This course gave me a huge leap forward in my practice: I understood torticollis beyond what I thought I knew.”
“It combines theory and clinical practice impeccably, with real cases and concrete strategies.”
15 years of results and research on congenital muscular torticollis
The treatment system you will learn in TORTICOLLIS EXPERT has been tested by hundreds of professionals in 15 countries.
Training aligned with University Master’s programs in Pediatric Physiotherapy
You will gain access to knowledge taught in top-tier Master’s programs.
Scientific evidence
A training program supported by updated bibliography aligned with international clinical guidelines.
Ongoing updates
New material is uploaded periodically and references are regularly updated.
This program will help you build something new
This is not just another course to passively watch behind a screen. It is an online training program specifically designed for active professionals with real clinical practice, who want to integrate what they learn from day one.
Here, learning is active and practical, designed to help you reason better, intervene with greater confidence, and make meaningful clinical decisions. All content is adapted to real clinical practice, with no filler theory or empty protocols.
- Why anamnesis guides clinical focus and saves time during the first visit.
- Pre-visit questionnaire: what to ask and how to send it (prenatal, perinatal, postnatal, breastfeeding/feeding, previous treatments, environment).
- Transforming family concerns into functional, observable, short-term goals.
- Onset and evolution: key questions to differentiate diagnoses.
- Fears, beliefs, and expectations: how to uncover them and turn them into adherence.
- Anticipated hypothesis: 5–6 plausible causes, a mental map for examination, and red flags/referral criteria.
- Why congenital muscular torticollis (CMT) may pose a risk to neurodevelopment and when to conduct structured screening.
- Six-step protocol: vision · hearing/communication · automatisms/reflexes · postural-motor development · standardized scales · environmental factors.
- Vision and hearing: fixation/tracking, facial expression, and response to sounds; asymmetries and warning signs.
- Automatisms/reflexes and postural-motor development: movement quality, age-related milestones, role of arms/hands, and detection of asymmetries.
- Standardized scales (AIMS, HINE/SINDA, TIMP, IMP, Bayley, Denver II): practical criteria for choosing according to the case.
- Environmental factors influencing outcomes and adherence; family education and red flags for referral.
- Importance of detailed assessment of functions and structures to confirm diagnostic hypotheses and differentiate functional from structural impairments.
- Active mobility: observation of spontaneous rotations, visual/auditory/tactile stimulation, and objective recording in degrees.
- Passive mobility: reference cervical ranges, detection of barriers and resistance, differentiation between structural limitation and functional deficit.
- Alignment: analysis in supine and prone positions; classic postural reactions (Pull-to-sit, Landau, Muscle Function Scale); detection of compensations and asymmetries with neuromotor implications.
- Tissues: observation and palpation of the neck and cervical region, detection of SCM nodules, associated tensions, suspicion of malformations, and referral criteria.
- Neuromeningeal tension: clinical signs (extension patterns, irritability, rigidity), adapted tests in infants (egg test, modified Landau), clinical applications, and relationship with meningitis.
- Head shape: assessment of plagiocephaly/brachycephaly (observation, cephalometric measurements, cranial indices), use of digital tools and the Argenta Scale, referral criteria.
- Mouth and orofacial function: observation at rest, facial symmetry, oral reflexes, tongue tone and suction; impact on breastfeeding and need for interdisciplinary referral.
- Pain: importance of identifying pain in infants with torticollis, use of validated scales (FLACC, NIPS), interpretation criteria, and clinical usefulness for follow-up.
- Torticollis does not appear in isolation: it is often associated with other impairments (hips, arms, thorax, mouth, skull).
- Hips: observation of the more restricted side, Galeazzi test, asymmetric abduction test, and imaging requests when in doubt.
- Arms: detection of adduction, mobility assessment, abduction test, and external rotation test.
- Thorax: analysis of thoracic convexity at rest and during head rotations; identification of asymmetries from early stages.
- Mouth: review of resting position, facial symmetry, lateral tongue mobility, rooting reflex, and quality of non-nutritive sucking.
- Plagiocephaly: analysis of overall head shape, detection of flattening or asymmetries, measurement of circumference, length, width, and diagonals; calculation of cranial indices or use of digital tools (HeadShape).
- Craniofacial dysfunctions: importance of early detection as part of screening associated with CMT.
- Importance of clinical reasoning as the foundation for designing an effective intervention plan.
- Confirm or rule out the anticipated hypothesis: review possible etiologies (ocular, reflux/Sandifer, congenital malformations, neurological causes, joint dysfunctions, abscesses, etc.).
- Understand the etiopathogenesis of congenital muscular torticollis (CMT): degrees of severity, prevalence, and theories of origin (compartment syndrome, intrauterine alterations, perinatal position).
- Differentiate between musculoskeletal torticollis and motor control torticollis:
- Musculoskeletal → brakes or blocks, tissue/joint limitation, need for manual therapy.
- Motor control → sensory, tonic, or motor alterations, need for stimulation and exercises.
- Do not be influenced solely by the presence of an SCM nodule: torticollis is a continuum of degrees and is not limited to a palpable mass.
- Establish the intervention plan using a stepped approach:
- First, the musculoskeletal component.
- Then, the neuro-sensory-motor component.
- Involve the family in the therapeutic process:
- Listen to and understand their fears.
- Explain using clear materials.
- Perform exercises together with caregivers.
- Prepare them for difficulties they may encounter at home.
- Concept of manual therapy in pediatrics: clarify misconceptions, definition according to IFOMPT, and basic principles (comfortable, adapted, gentle, safe, accompanied).
- Intervention goals: gain active and passive ROM, improve movement quality and symmetry, optimize cranial symmetry and morphology, improve respiratory and orofacial functions, and support motor and sensory development.
- What should not be done: precautions in specific pathologies (e.g., KISS syndrome).
- Myofascial therapy and massage: tissue mobilization techniques for the sternocleidomastoid and cervical tissues, mapping in supine.
- Stretching or mobilization: analysis of differences, combined rotation and inclination techniques, precautions (hard end-feel, risk of injury, limitations for gaining active ROM), safety keys (prior tissue work, respect barriers, use stimuli to make it active).
- Fencers: use of the asymmetrical tonic neck reflex (ATNR) and eye-hand-mouth coordination to integrate manual therapy with neurosensory development.
- Advanced TMPI techniques: occipital neuromeningeal techniques, approach to plagiocephaly and cranial deformities, integration with orofacial physiotherapy.
Courses and bonus materials included (at no additional cost):
- Extra course: "How to get the family to follow your instructions without fear or doubts"
- Extra course: "Clinical reasoning in craniofacial alterations in the baby and child"
- Downloadable family-education leaflets on neurodevelopment and plagiocephaly prevention
- Live clinical webinars to resolve questions and review real cases
Format and access:
- 100% online course
- Immediate access upon enrollment
- Can be completed in 2 months (at a comfortable pace)
- More than 10 hours of clinical content
- Downloadable materials and updates included
- Lifetime access
EXCLUSIVE Bonus: A tool that makes the difference!
3 months of HEADSHAPE PRO FREE
Your ally at every stage of clinical treatment.
- Instant results compatible with your workflow. Simply enter measurements manually and your assistant will generate the results.
- Track your patient’s progress at any time. Improve follow-up efficiency through an organized record of consecutive measurements.
- Get tips to support families. Patient progress is strengthened by supporting caregivers—discover your assistant’s practical tips.
- The technology that makes your work objective. Forget the calculator on your phone.
- Automatic indices: Immediate calculation of CVAI and CI.
- Graphical indices: Show visual progress to parents and build loyalty with real data.
Created by Iñaki Pastor and TMPI-PIMT
Develop your competence with a world-class reference
Doctor of Physiotherapy and Master’s degree in Pediatric Physiotherapy. Expert in pediatrics and child development. International lecturer in different University Master’s programs in Pediatrics and Postgraduate professor at the University of Montreal (Canada). With more than 30 years of clinical experience, he has trained thousands of professionals in Europe and Latin America.
Author of pediatric research papers, reviewer for scientific journals such as Children. Author of books such as:
Pediatric manual therapy in neuromusculoskeletal alterations of the baby and child (Elsevier, 2023),
Neurodevelopmental disorders (Elsevier, 2025) and
Pediatric orofacial physiotherapy and breastfeeding (Elsevier, 2026)
TMPI-PIMT is a concept internationally recognized for its contribution to pediatrics and neurodevelopment. It is present in more than 15 countries and continues to grow while supporting physiotherapists and other health professionals. It stands out for integrating respectful and safe pediatric manual therapy within motor and sensory neurodevelopment.
Certification
At the end, you will receive your diploma endorsed by the international TMPI model, with certified hours.
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Frequently asked questions
Don’t worry. The course guides you step by step from the anatomical and clinical foundations through to full intervention.
Yes. Although it is designed for physiotherapists, it is also applicable for pediatricians and other child development professionals.
No. All content is available from the moment you get access. And you can join the webinars whenever you want.
Yes. You will watch videos of real evaluation and treatment sessions.
Yes, with the international TMPI seal.
Review what’s included and start today!
Enrolling is easy, access is immediate, and you will see results reflected in your patients from the very first application.
Intensive Course on Congenital Muscular Torticollis
✅ Complete program and step-by-step checklist
✅ 2-month gradual release system
✅ Monthly live Q&A sessions
✅ Bonus “How to get the family to follow your instructions without fear or doubts“
✅ Bonus “Clinical reasoning in craniofacial alterations in the baby and child”
✅ Bonus “3 MONTHS of HEADSHAPE PRO FREE!”
LIMITED TIME ONLY!
⭐ Downloadable family-education leaflets on neurodevelopment and plagiocephaly prevention
⭐ Lifetime access
⭐ Access to future updates
⭐ Mini clinical guides
⭐ More than 17 manual techniques and exercises
⭐ Family education leaflets
⭐ Anamnesis forms
⭐ Expanded course notes
Important: results and professional responsibility
We want you to get the most out of this training and for it to help you grow as a professional. But it is also important to make something clear from the start: clinical results cannot be guaranteed. Every case is unique, and patient outcomes depend on multiple factors: clinical history, environment, the specific application of strategies… and, of course, the competence and judgment of the professional delivering the intervention.
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This course provides tools, reasoning models, and practical strategies based on clinical experience and the available evidence. However, it does not replace individual professional responsibility, nor does it substitute for officially recognized training required by the health authorities of each country.
Participation in this course does not imply legal authorization to practice a health profession, nor does it guarantee, by itself, the development of full clinical competence. Applying the content is the student’s sole responsibility, and it must always be done within the legal and ethical framework governing their professional practice.
In addition, it is essential that the professional can recognize warning signs or red flags that may indicate an underlying medical pathology. If there is any suspicion, it is their responsibility to refer immediately and urgently to the appropriate medical professional, always prioritizing the patient’s safety and well-being.
Put directly: this training gives you knowledge and helps you think better. But it cannot be held responsible for clinical errors, poor application of the content, or lack of results with your patients.
If you choose to train with us, we give you our best. And we trust you will do the same from your professional side.
