{"id":492950,"date":"2026-05-10T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T08:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/opisthotonos-what-it-is-causes-symptoms-treatment\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T08:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T08:35:00","slug":"opisthotonos-what-it-is-causes-symptoms-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/opisthotonos-what-it-is-causes-symptoms-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Opisthotonos: What It Is, Causes, Symptoms &amp; Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opisthotonos (pronounced \u201cop-is-THOT-in-us\u201d) is a reflex muscle movement. You might also see it spelled \u201copisthotonus.\u201d It\u2019s an uncontrolled flexing of muscles throughout your neck and back. It usually happens when a person is unconscious or unable to control muscle movements in their neck and back.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/my.clevelandclinic.org\/health\/symptoms\/opisthotonos\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/my.clevelandclinic.org\/health\/symptoms\/opisthotonos<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opisthotonos (pronounced \u201cop-is-THOT-in-us\u201d) is a reflex muscle movement. You might also see it spelled \u201copisthotonus.\u201d It\u2019s an uncontrolled flexing of muscles throughout your neck and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zurich","wpcat-8-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}