Chines Torticollis surgical case VS American surgical case

Torticollis Surgical case from USA & China

 I talked to an American patient who had torticollis, which was congenital muscular torticollis since birth.  she saw specialist when she was a baby and the doctor thought it would correct itself, but things went not like that and it took a long time for her to find a doctor. The tilt and tightness and shoulder pain affected her a lot. She did go to neuroscience and got Botox and no relief, then she took surgery in USA covered by her insurance which cost about 30000USD (She works for the state and they have peba which goes with blue cross).  She and her daughter about year after surgery. After surgery mostly her shoulder still has a knot, but other than that it’s good.

Here I want to share with you a Chinese patient with muscular torticollis before and after surgery and incision after surgery as well as the cost which you must care about most.

Summary: The muscular torticollis surgery is outpatient surgery, but here in our hospital in China foreign patients can stay for one or two nights or they can also leave the hospital after surgery if they prefer to stay in hotel. 

And the incision after operation is only 1 cm. The bandage is used to press the incision to stop bleeding.

And the cost for surgery done in Beijing China is just more or less than one third of that in USA. 

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