Re: Re: Transition to part time wear -- is it a good idea?

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Thanks for your reply. How long did you do part time wear? Did you get any improvement?Sent from my iPhoneOn May 6, 2010, at 8:13 AM, "leB" <mylameoww@...> wrote:

I can tell you that my son wore his helmet for plagio and I did the part time wear a bit at the end, I am sorry I did that because we did not capture a growth spurt very well. While I do think it can be better to wear part time than none at all, especially while sleeping to keep them off their head/flat spot, the do grow all day long as well as at night so if you have the helmet off at all you are losing correction. I would be sure you are satisfied with stopping treatment befor you go to part time wear if at all.

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> Hi All,

> My daughter will get her helmet off in 2 weeks come hell or high water (my husband is DONE). It was plagio we were working on and she is down to 1.7 mm (yea!), and her CR (at level 3) has also gone from 87.3% down to 83.8%. I want to keep working on getting her CR number down to under 83% if I can so was thinking of having her wear the helmet all night, naps, and car rides with space made in the front and back and just held on the sides. (ly, she can wear the helmet at night for years and it wouldn't bother us, but we want to see her head again during the day

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> Does anyone have experience with part-time wear -- good or bad? I want all feedback on how this can work or if it just plain doesn't. If you all have found it doesn't work, I don't want to waste time when I could just try to suffer the helmet full time a few more weeks instead.

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> Thanks,

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I can totally relate! We were "done" with the helmet after he turned one and his asymmetry was down to 3mm. We decided to go cold turkey. In a month, I thought his head was looking worse. We went back to a scan and his asymmetry was up to 4mm and he grew 7mm! Now, granted some difference is within the margin of error and it wasn't a full-on regression but we decided to do night time wear. We just couldn't go back to full time wear. Just had another scan after a month of night only and his asymmetry is the same but he also grew another 5mm. In hindsight, I would have continued full-time wear for at least another month or two.Part of our decision to end the helmet was that we were happy with how his head looked. His asymmetry started at 13mm. His head looks good now. I still see the flat spot at times and wish we could have done things differently. I try not to obsess or I will go crazy. Dianemother to almost 15 months fulltime STARband Oct. - MarchNighttime starting in AprilOn May 6, 2010, at 11:37 AM, Julesfrommobile wrote:

Thanks for your reply. How long did you do part time wear? Did you get any improvement?Sent from my iPhoneOn May 6, 2010, at 8:13 AM, "leB" <mylameoww > wrote:

I can tell you that my son wore his helmet for plagio and I did the part time wear a bit at the end, I am sorry I did that because we did not capture a growth spurt very well. While I do think it can be better to wear part time than none at all, especially while sleeping to keep them off their head/flat spot, the do grow all day long as well as at night so if you have the helmet off at all you are losing correction. I would be sure you are satisfied with stopping treatment befor you go to part time wear if at all.

le

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> Hi All,

> My daughter will get her helmet off in 2 weeks come hell or high water (my husband is DONE). It was plagio we were working on and she is down to 1.7 mm (yea!), and her CR (at level 3) has also gone from 87.3% down to 83.8%. I want to keep working on getting her CR number down to under 83% if I can so was thinking of having her wear the helmet all night, naps, and car rides with space made in the front and back and just held on the sides. (ly, she can wear the helmet at night for years and it wouldn't bother us, but we want to see her head again during the day

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> Does anyone have experience with part-time wear -- good or bad? I want all feedback on how this can work or if it just plain doesn't. If you all have found it doesn't work, I don't want to waste time when I could just try to suffer the helmet full time a few more weeks instead.

>

> Thanks,

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Boy that scares me a bit. I guess we really need to accept no more change once we stop the full time wear, even going parttime. At our next appt, if she's not where I want her I will try to be full time as much as possible that my husband will allow, and definely all sleep time and car rides. Boy, I can't believe how much growth you had at one year! I hope for that this next 2 weeks! Sent from my iPhoneOn May 6, 2010, at 6:45 PM, Diane Wharton <olivepug@...> wrote:

I can totally relate! We were "done" with the helmet after he turned one and his asymmetry was down to 3mm. We decided to go cold turkey. In a month, I thought his head was looking worse. We went back to a scan and his asymmetry was up to 4mm and he grew 7mm! Now, granted some difference is within the margin of error and it wasn't a full-on regression but we decided to do night time wear. We just couldn't go back to full time wear. Just had another scan after a month of night only and his asymmetry is the same but he also grew another 5mm. In hindsight, I would have continued full-time wear for at least another month or two.Part of our decision to end the helmet was that we were happy with how his head looked. His asymmetry started at 13mm. His head looks good now. I still see the flat spot at times and wish we could have done things differently. I

try not to obsess or I will go crazy. Dianemother to almost 15 months fulltime STARband Oct. - MarchNighttime starting in AprilOn May 6, 2010, at 11:37 AM, Julesfrommobile wrote:

Thanks for your reply. How long did you do part time wear? Did you get any improvement?Sent from my iPhoneOn May 6, 2010, at 8:13 AM, "leB" <mylameoww > wrote:

I can tell you that my son wore his helmet for plagio and I did the part time wear a bit at the end, I am sorry I did that because we did not capture a growth spurt very well. While I do think it can be better to wear part time than none at all, especially while sleeping to keep them off their head/flat spot, the do grow all day long as well as at night so if you have the helmet off at all you are losing correction. I would be sure you are satisfied with stopping treatment befor you go to part time wear if at all.

le

>

> Hi All,

> My daughter will get her helmet off in 2 weeks come hell or high water (my husband is DONE). It was plagio we were working on and she is down to 1.7 mm (yea!), and her CR (at level 3) has also gone from 87.3% down to 83.8%. I want to keep working on getting her CR number down to under 83% if I can so was thinking of having her wear the helmet all night, naps, and car rides with space made in the front and back and just held on the sides. (ly, she can wear the helmet at night for years and it wouldn't bother us, but we want to see her head again during the day

>

> Does anyone have experience with part-time wear -- good or bad? I want all feedback on how this can work or if it just plain doesn't. If you all have found it doesn't work, I don't want to waste time when I could just try to suffer the helmet full time a few more weeks instead.

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> Thanks,

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