Re: Intro - DSi Today

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Hello! )

 

Did they not give you a sheet with all of the measurements? Maybe they could e-mail or fax it to you. I want to say that our sheet has cranial length, then cranial width, then cephalic index (which has 'standard deviation' near it).. and then traditional vault asymmetry, vault asymmetry, and skull base asymmetry. I don't have it in front of us, but that sounds right.

 

As far as I understand it (and I could be wrong), but I think this link explains it best. I hope you can open it!

 

http://books.google.com/books?id=Q738LYIlcR8C & pg=PA516 & lpg=PA516 & dq=cranial+measurements+traditional+vault+asymmetry & source=bl & ots=vc6XcGuCXk & sig=hbeAmuebUIodgMaMn2kolz_rcO4 & hl=en & ei=dozoSemHMoaHtgfZ553bBQ & sa=X & oi=book_result & ct=result & resnum=1

 

Kim

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Mark Connolly <k9@...> wrote:

Hi everyone. I have been " lurking " on this group for the past couple of weeks. I have really enjoyed reading the posts and have already learned a lot along with having more questions/concerns. My daughter, Mackenzie is 9 mo and has Brachycephaly and right Plagio. According to the clinician, she is in the " high moderate to low severe " range. I will post her Photo Study soon. We are going to CT in Charlotte. Today, we went for the DSi and paid for the treatment, so I guess we are committed to it now. She did fine with the DSi. She was even fine with the stocking they put over her face, although mommy was a little nervous about that one.

After reading a lot of the posts with everyone talking about their " measurements " , I started getting a little concerned because CT never gave us any measurements. Today, I asked about them. She showed us the measurements but did mention that they only take them for insurance purposes. She said that they are basically measuring from one bone point to another and that the severe areas may not always show up in the particular areas they are measuring. That is why they don't pay a lot of attention to the measurements. I would like to thank for explaining the measurements. That helped me to understand it a LITTLE better. I don't remember exactly what each number represented, because I did not get a copy, but what I could remember of her numbers, I wrote down when I got to the car. The Cephalic Index was 91.00 underneath that was a +2 (not sure what that meant) The next number she gave was a 7. I think this was the Cranial Vault Assym. The last number was a 6. I think I remember her telling me that this was the measurements from ear to nose (maybe?). Does this make sense to anyone? I am not sure where the Cephalic Index " should be " either. All I really know is that these were the numbers in this order, if anyone knows what CT typically measures first, second, so forth please explain this to me. I would love anyone's advice or input on Mackenzie, just please don't tell me that you don't think her measurements are severe enough to do the treatment, since we just forked out all the money today. :-)

Thanks.Amy Mackenzie - 9 months (receiving DOC band on April 29th)

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Amy,

 

I have a feeling that we saw the same person in Charlotte... because we have very similar 'markings' on our photos that no one else seems to have, hehe!! I'm surprised that they didn't give you a sheet with numbers, they actually gave us two.. one in their format, and one in a more simple format.

 

Kim

 

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Mark Connolly <k9@...> wrote:

Hi everyone. I have been " lurking " on this group for the past couple of weeks. I have really enjoyed reading the posts and have already learned a lot along with having more questions/concerns. My daughter, Mackenzie is 9 mo and has Brachycephaly and right Plagio. According to the clinician, she is in the " high moderate to low severe " range. I will post her Photo Study soon. We are going to CT in Charlotte. Today, we went for the DSi and paid for the treatment, so I guess we are committed to it now. She did fine with the DSi. She was even fine with the stocking they put over her face, although mommy was a little nervous about that one.

After reading a lot of the posts with everyone talking about their " measurements " , I started getting a little concerned because CT never gave us any measurements. Today, I asked about them. She showed us the measurements but did mention that they only take them for insurance purposes. She said that they are basically measuring from one bone point to another and that the severe areas may not always show up in the particular areas they are measuring. That is why they don't pay a lot of attention to the measurements. I would like to thank for explaining the measurements. That helped me to understand it a LITTLE better. I don't remember exactly what each number represented, because I did not get a copy, but what I could remember of her numbers, I wrote down when I got to the car. The Cephalic Index was 91.00 underneath that was a +2 (not sure what that meant) The next number she gave was a 7. I think this was the Cranial Vault Assym. The last number was a 6. I think I remember her telling me that this was the measurements from ear to nose (maybe?). Does this make sense to anyone? I am not sure where the Cephalic Index " should be " either. All I really know is that these were the numbers in this order, if anyone knows what CT typically measures first, second, so forth please explain this to me. I would love anyone's advice or input on Mackenzie, just please don't tell me that you don't think her measurements are severe enough to do the treatment, since we just forked out all the money today. :-)

Thanks.Amy Mackenzie - 9 months (receiving DOC band on April 29th)