The difference between these two diseases is as follows: the clinical manifestation of spastic torticollis is that the neck muscle spasm or clonus makes the head lean to one side. The disease starts slowly and gets worse gradually, and rarely subsides or relieves itself. Abnormal movements beyond the control of head and neck muscles often involve bilateral muscles, but the degree of involvement is often asymmetric, resulting in the head twisting to one side. Get up lightly in the morning, get worse after exercise, emotional changes or sensory stimulation, stop falling asleep, muscle hypertrophy and pain, and the nervous system examination is negative.

The clinical symptoms of cervical spondylosis are complicated, mainly including neck and back pain, weakness of upper limbs, numbness of fingers, weakness of lower limbs, difficulty in walking, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and even blurred vision, tachycardia and dysphagia. Knowing the different symptoms of the two diseases can help patients distinguish the two diseases and avoid misdiagnosis.