Re: What measurements define mild, moderate, or severe plagiocephaly?

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These are the general guidelines that the band companies and insurance use:

Plagio Severity:

0-3 mm is normal

<6 mm is very mild

6-10 mm is mild

10-15 mm is moderate

15+ mm is severe

Brachycephaly Severity:

Cephalic Ratio = Cranial Breadth/Cranial Length

ideal ratio - 78%

normal - 73-83%

moderate - 83.1% to 87.9%

severe - 88% and higher

Molly

Novato, California

Nicolas, 4, tort & plagio, STARband (CIRS Oakland) 4/24/06-9/12/06,

Graduate!

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What measurements define mild, moderate, or severe

plagiocephaly?

Hi,

Thank you to everyone who responded to my previous post about to band now or

later. It was very helpful. I have another question for the group. We

have our free evaluation at Cranial Tech on Tuesday and from my

understanding her head will be measured. Can someone educate me on how

these measurements are taken and what they mean? Also, are there set

measurements that indicate mild, moderate or severe? I would love to have a

baseline to compare to when I am at Cranial Tech. Since I have to drive so

far, we will commit to banding that day and get her fitted if it seems that

will be the best course of treatment for her. The more information I can

have at the evaluation the better. Thanks so much for your help. This

group has been so helpful to us!

Thanks,

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For more plagio info

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Besides using measurements as a guide, you can judge it visually. CT includes a help page for this on their website. I think that, although the insurance companies use measurements to determine qualifications for banding, what really matters is what you see visually.

Here is the link:

http://www.cranialtech.com/index.php?option=com_content & view=category & layout=blog & id=71 & Itemid=132

There is another place on their sit that has a PDF download, but I can't seem to find it now. Regardless, this should give you some idea. Yes, measurements do give a guideline, but I think that we need to keep the vision of what the head looks like in the back of our mind.

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Hi,Thank you to everyone who responded to my previous post about to band now or later. It was very helpful. I have another question for the group. We have our free evaluation at Cranial Tech on Tuesday and from my understanding her head will be measured. Can someone educate me on how these measurements are taken and what they mean? Also, are there set measurements that indicate mild, moderate or severe? I would love to have a baseline to compare to when I am at Cranial Tech. Since I have to drive so far, we will commit to banding that day and get her fitted if it seems that will be the best course of treatment for her. The more information I can have at the evaluation the better. Thanks so much for your help. This group has been so helpful to us!Thanks,

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From Cranial Tech the various degrees of severity (Link: http://www.cranialtech.com/index.php?option=com_content & view=article & id=182:brachycephaly-pics & catid=72:brachycephaly & Itemid=133

What does Brachycephaly look like?

Here are examples of some of the varying degrees of brachycephaly.

NormalHead Shape

MildBrachycephaly

ModerateBrachycephaly

SevereBrachycephaly

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Sorry before i posted the wrong pictures from cranial tech, i was reading

brachycephaly instead of plagio, brachy is all i have in my mind (and read!)

since my baby has it!

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> Thank you to everyone who responded to my previous post about to band now or

later. It was very helpful. I have another question for the group. We have our

free evaluation at Cranial Tech on Tuesday and from my understanding her head

will be measured. Can someone educate me on how these measurements are taken and

what they mean? Also, are there set measurements that indicate mild, moderate or

severe? I would love to have a baseline to compare to when I am at Cranial Tech.

Since I have to drive so far, we will commit to banding that day and get her

fitted if it seems that will be the best course of treatment for her. The more

information I can have at the evaluation the better. Thanks so much for your

help. This group has been so helpful to us!

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There is actually a pdf file that they used to have and I recently found by doing a google search. It shows the severity levels for all angles rather than just the sides. It is shown through drawings, but it seems pretty accurate to me.

what you posted was all that I could find this time.

What measurements define mild, moderate, or severe plagiocephaly? > > Â > > > > > Hi, > > Thank you to everyone who responded to my previous post about to band now or later. It was very helpful. I have another question for the group. We have our free evaluation at Cranial Tech on Tuesday and from my understanding her head will be measured. Can someone educate me on how these measurements are taken and what they mean? Also, are there set measurements that indicate mild, moderate or severe? I would love to have a baseline to compare to when I am at Cranial Tech. Since I have to drive so far, we will commit to banding that day and get her fitted if it seems that will be the best course of treatment for her. The more information I can have at the evaluation the better. Thanks so much for your help. This group has been so helpful to us! > > Thanks, > >