Random Thought

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Sorry to bother many of you with this post....but reading a lot of messages in

this group, as well as in the older plagio group, it seems that many peds and

family doctors are not easy to persuade in terms of banding. I was trying to

figure out why this would be. Any ideas? I was thinking maybe (internally

within clinics) it might be considered a failure within the clinicians rating

system (if they have such a system) to have a child need a band (i.e. the

clinicians job is to help the patient and family prevent these problems from

arising in the first place, or from getting to the level of needing a band,

through training, early observation, etc - therefore to have a child need a band

is deemed a " failure " in terms of preventative medicine (this shouldn't happen

unless the clinician " missed something " earlier on))? If true, this would

explain the tendency (on some, but obviously not all clinicians) to not easily

recommend banding - but I hope it isn't true as the ethics of such a position

would seem questionable to me. I just can't see any other reason,

though.......And since my family doctor wasn't persuaded by our concerns, and we

didn't push too hard as we felt (at the time) he was great and was doing the

best for our child, we've suffered as a result (our child wasn't banded until 21

months corrected, and the doc still insists it is " very mild " - and the doc

never caught (or, at least, told us about the 90-92% brachy he had - it took

specialists to inform us of this).

Jr. (DOC banded at 21 month corrected, now almost 23 months correct)

Sr.

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My baby's ped didn't even notice the flatness! I had to point it out to him. I've been extremely dissatisfied with him and his expertise (or not!). We're looking into changing pediatricians. If it was pointed out to us early on, then it wouldn't have gotten to this point. I read a lot of magazines and brochures about bathing, feeding, etc., but there was nothing on Plagio/Brachy. If I had known early on the importance of repositioning, then I would have been better prepared. It's a shame that this information is widely talked or written about.

From: mathison039 <mathison039@...>Plagiocephaly Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 11:17:44 AMSubject: Random Thought

Sorry to bother many of you with this post....but reading a lot of messages in this group, as well as in the older plagio group, it seems that many peds and family doctors are not easy to persuade in terms of banding. I was trying to figure out why this would be. Any ideas? I was thinking maybe (internally within clinics) it might be considered a failure within the clinicians rating system (if they have such a system) to have a child need a band (i.e. the clinicians job is to help the patient and family prevent these problems from arising in the first place, or from getting to the level of needing a band, through training, early observation, etc - therefore to have a child need a band is deemed a "failure" in terms of preventative medicine (this shouldn't happen unless the clinician "missed something" earlier on))? If true, this would explain the tendency (on some, but obviously not all clinicians) to not easily recommend banding - but I hope it isn't

true as the ethics of such a position would seem questionable to me. I just can't see any other reason, though...... .And since my family doctor wasn't persuaded by our concerns, and we didn't push too hard as we felt (at the time) he was great and was doing the best for our child, we've suffered as a result (our child wasn't banded until 21 months corrected, and the doc still insists it is "very mild" - and the doc never caught (or, at least, told us about the 90-92% brachy he had - it took specialists to inform us of this). Jr. (DOC banded at 21 month corrected, now almost 23 months correct) Sr.

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Correction:

From: CT <ct27@...>Plagiocephaly Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 12:53:10 PMSubject: Re: Random Thought

My baby's ped didn't even notice the flatness! I had to point it out to him. I've been extremely dissatisfied with him and his expertise (or not!). We're looking into changing pediatricians. If it was pointed out to us early on, then it wouldn't have gotten to this point. I read a lot of magazines and brochures about bathing, feeding, etc., but there was nothing on Plagio/Brachy. If I had known early on the importance of repositioning, then I would have been better prepared. It's a shame that this information is NOT widely talked or written about.

From: mathison039 <mathison039>PlagiocephalySent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 11:17:44 AMSubject: Random Thought

Sorry to bother many of you with this post....but reading a lot of messages in this group, as well as in the older plagio group, it seems that many peds and family doctors are not easy to persuade in terms of banding. I was trying to figure out why this would be. Any ideas? I was thinking maybe (internally within clinics) it might be considered a failure within the clinicians rating system (if they have such a system) to have a child need a band (i.e. the clinicians job is to help the patient and family prevent these problems from arising in the first place, or from getting to the level of needing a band, through training, early observation, etc - therefore to have a child need a band is deemed a "failure" in terms of preventative medicine (this shouldn't happen unless the clinician "missed something" earlier on))? If true, this would explain the tendency (on some, but obviously not all clinicians) to not easily recommend banding - but I hope it isn't

true as the ethics of such a position would seem questionable to me. I just can't see any other reason, though...... .And since my family doctor wasn't persuaded by our concerns, and we didn't push too hard as we felt (at the time) he was great and was doing the best for our child, we've suffered as a result (our child wasn't banded until 21 months corrected, and the doc still insists it is "very mild" - and the doc never caught (or, at least, told us about the 90-92% brachy he had - it took specialists to inform us of this). Jr. (DOC banded at 21 month corrected, now almost 23 months correct) Sr.