Re: Not sure if I should be concerned

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Thank you all for the responses...The CT website helped with the

photos...we are about 400 miles from the closest CT, not sure how

realistic an evaluation would be...we have been to two peds, both think

its mild and have prescribed PT for the tort...PT also thinks its mild,

but is concerned about possible sutures fusing...have to check back with

ped.

I've seen people in this group refer to CST and chiro... am I correct in

seeing that as crainiosacral Therapy and chiropractic therapy? One of

the PT specializes in the CS therapy. Are there other alternatives to

banding or helmets that anyone has had good results with? Has anyone had

the situation I described earlier where the tort went from one side to the

other after doing the stretching and repositioning?

Thanks for all the help!

> Hi, I'm new to this group and not sure if I belong here or not.

>

> My youngest daughter is three months old and was diagnosed a week ago with

> torticollis. I had noticed her head tilting a few days before and

> realized that she was that same way inutero. Because she was breech for

> the majority of my pregnancy we had an ultrasound (to confirm her head

> down) about three weeks before she was born. Her head was down in my left

> hip and tilted the exact way she was when I noticed her torticollis at 12

> weeks old.

>

> I looked up torticollis and found myself here...somewhere along the line I

> saw the different head shapes and recognized the oval shaped head as my

> daughter's head shape.

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> This was interesting to me because she was born with her head moulded from

> birth and her hair had the " male-pattern baldness " look to it...it was

> thin in the front and long in the back and sides. If she was my first or

> second or even third child, then maybe I would just say she's within the

> range of normal, but she is my seventh child. None of my other kids were

> breech...none of my other kids had any head moulding after delivery(and

> two were 11 pounds, she was not quite 8 pounds) and none of my other kids

> had this hair pattern. Her head looked as though it was flat on the sides

> and tall in the back and her hair pattern made it look worse. She was my

> smallest baby and only breech so I have been attibuting all her

> differences to that. Then I noticed her head tilted to the side.

>

> Within days of me and my husband noticing her head tilt, we started

> positioning her and holding her such to compensate. We also did

> massage...she is so tight! Then while waiting for the prescribed PT appt

> we researched further about repositioning and stretching. In eight days

> she was holding her head straight, although her shoulders and neck are

> rounded and stiff...her head was straight in 8 days! (not to mention she

> is sleeping better and crying less) We have continued with the repo and

> stretching and have now noticed that her head tilts the complete other

> direction!!!! We have PT to start today...

>

> I'm convinced of two things:

>

> 1) Her tort will be helped by PT...(but does she need something more than

> PT? and what's with the head going the other direction?)

> 2) Her head is flat on the sides, but round in the back...(Does she need

> treatment or is it " going to round out on its own " ?)

>

> I looked for some before and after photos of oval shaped heads but

> couldn't find any...has anyone had any of these experiences?

>

> Thank you for any input!

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