Re: Re: How successful is the DOC band with brachy?

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What the band will do for brachy babies is prevent it from getting wider and will allow it to round out in the back. Maysa's head was very wide and very flat, now that I can look back. Right before she got her first DOC band, the clinician also told us that she would always look wider than normal. The parts that have come out just can't go back in, unfortunately. However, the overall look of her head looks great. It doesn't look flat any more. It looks round and while her head is still a little wide (wider than her 3.5 year old sister), it looks more proportionate to the point that it doesn't jump at you at all.

Like said, I have tons of pictures of Maysa on her blog at www.mymaysa.wordpress.com and I am convinced now that looking at her, nobody would ever think that there was ever anything wrong with her head.

Although the end result is not perfect, it is all worth it.

Leila,Maysa, 20 mo, DOC band Grad 5.26.09

www.mymaysa.wordpress.com

From: nwilkens2275 <nwilkens2275@...>Subject: Re: How successful is the DOC band with brachy?Plagiocephaly Date: Monday, September 14, 2009, 6:52 AM

What she was trying to explain is that your daughter's head will continue to be as wide as it is, the band does not squeeze the skull into a narrower shape. It can only hold the growth at the widest points (the two sides) and encourage/force the growth to go to the back of the head which will give the head a better overall appearance (it will be longer, making the width not as prominant). It should reduce the severity of the flared sides because the rest of the head will look more proportionate. I know it's hard to understand/imagine, but the DOCBand works just as well with brachy as it does for plagio. You should check out Maysa's blog (mom is Leila, the link is at the end of her posts) to see really good photographic evidence of how the DOCBand works with brachy. She just posted about the improvement in Maysa's left ear, and that can kind of shows you how, even though the head is not narrower, the overall growth to the back of the head makes it

look much more "normal."Good luck!Jake-3 (DOCBand Grad 9/08)Jordan-5.5>> Our baby has mild plagio but moderate brachy. I feel like the plagio could even correct itself since she's sleeping on her stomach now.> > I'm more worried about the brachy. Because the back of her head is wider than the front, the sides flare out. As a result her face look wider than normal.> > Our DOC band clinician said there's nothing that can be done about this appearance, because to paraphrase her words "you can't push in the sides of the head." She said the cephalic index would improve, but the problematic appearance remains.> > I didn't

understand this b/c I thought that's the whole point of the band. Has anyone else had experience with this?>