facial asymmetry after doc band

[Guest guest]

my 8 month old daughter has been wearing the doc band for 2 months and will be

" graduating " next month. she had " moderate " plagio from torticollis and facial

asymmetry.

while she her head shape has improved i'm a little disappointed that her face is

still

asymmetric (fuller cheek on right side, smaller eye on left side). i'm not so

optimisitic that it

will improve in the next four week and our CT " practitioner " couldn't say for

sure that it

would correct. can/does the facial asymmetry correct after the band comes off?

did i have

unrealistic expectations that the band would correct her facial asymmetry?

--julie

[Guest guest]

simon has the same thing and he has graduated they said that its still from the tort and it will improve over time just to keep doing the streches, guess we will see right now its just nice not having to go to appointments and not dealing with the band.

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On 9/27/06, juliemosk <julie@...> wrote:

my 8 month old daughter has been wearing the doc band for 2 months and will be " graduating " next month. she had " moderate " plagio from torticollis and facial asymmetry. while she her head shape has improved i'm a little disappointed that her face is still asymmetric (fuller cheek on right side, smaller eye on left side). i'm not so optimisitic that it will improve in the next four week and our CT " practitioner " couldn't say for sure that it would correct. can/does the facial asymmetry correct after the band comes off? did i have unrealistic expectations that the band would correct her facial asymmetry?--julie --

[Guest guest]

Facial asymmetry takes longer to correct than flattening. It depends on the

severity, though, whether it will become unnoticeable after one band. The

ears take the longest to correct as they're the most difficult to correct.

The problem is that no one can predict how much your daughter's head will

grow and whether it will be sufficient to rid the facial asymmetry.

For us, we wanted our son to pass an elevator test and to not need any

specialized glasses or headwear. My son Malcolm's facial asymmetry improved

after wearing two Doc Bands over 6.5 months, but there is still some

remaining facial asymmetry - ears and prominent right cheek - which

untrained eyes likely won't notice (our goal). We knew however that it was

unlikely that we would totally eliminate the facial asymmetry with the two

Doc Bands because Malcolm was born with severe plagio - his plagio is now

mild. I would add, though, that improvements with facial asymmetry can be

very subtle. I didn't think we'd get as much correction with Malcolm's

facial asymmetry over the last band, but we did.

You might want to ask CT what you should expect over the next four weeks.

Try to squeeze as much correction as you possibly can.

Carolyn in NYC

Mum to Malcolm - 10 months - Doc Band grad, tort, hypotonia

facial asymmetry after doc band

my 8 month old daughter has been wearing the doc band for 2 months and will

be

" graduating " next month. she had " moderate " plagio from torticollis and

facial asymmetry.

while she her head shape has improved i'm a little disappointed that her

face is still

asymmetric (fuller cheek on right side, smaller eye on left side). i'm not

so optimisitic that it

will improve in the next four week and our CT " practitioner " couldn't say

for sure that it

would correct. can/does the facial asymmetry correct after the band comes

off? did i have

unrealistic expectations that the band would correct her facial asymmetry?

--julie

For more plagio info

[Guest guest]

- We have Hanger but are in the same boat. We have opted to go for the 2nd band in hopes that it will help w/ the asym. It may not but we wanna try. Our dd is fuller on the right side and she had left tort.

JEN

Mommy to 4...and 1 more!!!!

Luli - Tort/Plagio - Hanger Band - CA

"Luli"

www.babiesonline.com/babies/j/jens5th/