Can anyone share some good exercises for tort?

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My daughter has a head tilt to the right pretty much all of the time.

I have not talked to the pedi about it yet, because she already thinks

I'm over reacting about the plagio. If any of you have children with

tort, can you share some of the stretches you have to do with them. I

would like to start helping my baby, but I'm not sure how and I don't

want to hurt her by stretching her neck the wrong way! Oh well, we go

to CT on Friday so maybe they'll confirm if she has tort.

Thanks, Maggie

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My daughter's tort is mild and since she hates doing stretches, I was told to show her toys to where she has to turn her head. Don't hold them straight in front of her, but hold them to the left of her face or the right of her face. And then move them to the other side so that she follows. Also, hold them to the left and right slightly above her face so that she looks up that way (not straight up, but up and to the right and up and to the left). Also, I make her turn her head when I know she really wants to look at something. She loves our cat and I hold her sideways so that she has to turn in order to see her. We kind of do this all day long and not just a few minutes a day. It really has made a difference.

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Hi Maggie-

My son had tort and was in PT for 2.5 months, and I also did

stretches and exercises at home 3-5 times a day. I'm a little

worried about directing you on stretches without you being shown the

correct way to do them by a PT. Our PT directed me on where to place

my hands for the stretches and the different positions I could be in

to do them. If you don't feel comfortable going to your ped, maybe

you could look into getting an eval from a PT.

In the meantime though, you can try other exercises that don't

really involve a proper technique. Obviously tummy time will help,

if you lay her down and turn her head to the " weak " side (the left,

opposite of what she's comfortable with). That will stretch her neck

nicely, and then as she begins to hold her head up more, that will

help also. And the advice in the other post, about using toys and

stuff to direct her head movement is great.

What really helps with the tilt and neck strength is a stability

ball, if you have one. You put the baby, tummy down, on the ball

(not straight down on top, but kind of leaning back on it) and then

you roll/lean them to the right and left so that she has to hold her

head up and adjust to the leaning. I don't know if that makes sense

or not, but I have pictures of my son in PT, if you want I can email

you some and you can get a better idea. Just let me know.

Good luck!

Jake-18m (tort resolved/rt plagio/DocBand 2/11/08)

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> My daughter has a head tilt to the right pretty much all of the

time.

> I have not talked to the pedi about it yet, because she already

thinks

> I'm over reacting about the plagio. If any of you have children

with

> tort, can you share some of the stretches you have to do with

them. I

> would like to start helping my baby, but I'm not sure how and I

don't

> want to hurt her by stretching her neck the wrong way! Oh well,

we go

> to CT on Friday so maybe they'll confirm if she has tort.

>

> Thanks, Maggie

>