Re: How much improv. can be seen in a month?

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Hi ,

You are getting to that difficult stage where they can roll on their

own and don't like being repoed! Wedges or no wedges, if she wants

to roll bad enough, she will! We repoed for awhile, but the results

just weren't enough. I think the decision to band Hannah was super

easy because she was so severe, but in more mild cases I do think

you have to set yourself a repo deadline. Try to aggressively repo

her until that scan and then decide of you want to repo another

month or go to a band. would be considered on the

mild/moderate border with the measurements you gave. If you don't

see much better than that with the repoing, that I'd band her if I

were you. Luckily she's still plenty young where you can keep

trying and could definitely still get results. I think you'll know

if you can still keep her off her head as much as she needs to be

for the repositioning to be effective.

, mom to Hannah, DOCgrad

Cape Cod, Ma

> > >We just went to another appointment for our 4 month old

daughter.

> > She has

> > >plagio/brachy/tort. A month ago, her measurements of asymmetry

in

> > her head were

> > >16mm and 12mm and this month they were 9.1mm and 8.6mm

> > respectively. Could

> > >there possibly be that much improvement by repositioning in

only a

> > month??

> > >

> > >My husband and I are thinking that maybe there was some

> > improvement but

> > >mainly just the difference between using the calipers (sp??)

last

> > month versus the

> > >scan that was used during our most recent appointment.

> > >

> > >The orthotist said she was borderline in needing a band and

that

> > he wouldn't

> > >necessarily recommend it but if we wanted it we could go ahead

> > with it. I

> > >realize that we really need to push our pediatricians. But,

with

> > an experienced

> > >orthotist (which he is), should I just take his word for it or

> > should I take

> > >the band?

> > >

> > >We are scheduled for another scan at the end of this month

(before

> > our ins.

> > >expires) to take her measurements again.

> > >

> > >What should we do??

> > >

> > >

> > > 4 mos. plagio/brachy/mild tort.

> > >CA

>

>

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