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Hi everyone:

I am , mom to Rhiannon from St. MN. My now 3 month old

daughter was diagnosed with torticollis at 1 week old by our

Chiropractor. Unfortunately, our pediatrician was not concerned with

her neck and told me her head would " round out " . Not being one to

wait around, I called all the hospitals in the area and found Dr. Wood

(a plastic surgeon and inventor of the Craniocap) at Gillette

Children's in St. (and Minnetonka). He diagnosed her with severe

torticollis and plagiocephaly and entered us into pt. We love our

therapist, Sue and see her 1x per week. Since I am a believer in

holistic medicine (meaning to use all resources from conventional

medicine to alternative therapies to ensure a well-rounded treatment),

I also bring her to a cranial-sacral therapist 1x per week and a

cranial osteopath 2x per week. My experience has been that the

cranial-sacral therapist " calms " her muscles (her olive-sized mass in

her scm muscle was gone after one therapy! I don't know why or

how...); the cranial osteopath gets her cranial bones to move in the

right direction, so we are getting a jump on the helmut therapy, and

of course the PT checks progress on the scm muscle and makes sure her

development is on track. I am very happy with the " team " of

therapists that we are seeing and Rhiannon is showing great

improvement! We just found out she will not require surgery on her

SCM muscle - something that had looked to be inevitable when we first

started her treatment at 6 weeks old. She now sits straight up - no

tilt!!

Next Monday she will be taking her mold for her Craniocap, and we

expect to have it around tax-time.

I have been reading some of the discussions, and am very encouraged to

read that her ear alignment and facial asymetry (sp?) will improve! I

look forward to joining in on discussions and sharing my experience

with others, as well as taking in the information that you all have to

share.

Ciao!

- Rhiannon's mom in St. MN