Will an Osteopath Help with Facial Asymmetry ?

[Guest guest]

Hi,

DOes anyone bring their child to a DO( Osteopath). Is the reason you

are bringing them is for the TOrticollis and does your child have

asymmetry?

I was just wondering if this type of doctor helps with facial asymmetry

or are they just for stretching the neck for a dx of Torticollis?

Thanks

[Guest guest]

Theoretically, yes, they can help with facial assymetry, and they

really don't " stretch " the neck for torticollis. At least from my

perspective, it seems to have a lot more in common with massage than

anything else, although it is somehow different. One thing I heard,

and I don't know the veracity of it, is that it isn't really the

plagiocephaly that " causes " the facial assymetry, but the same tight

muscle pull that causes the torticollis also is pulling at the face.

FOr those that have observed a changing assymetry, have you observed

in conjunction with days in which the tort is also worse? I will have

to keep an eye on my DS for a similar pattern. The day I brought him

inot the craniofacial place, the Dr. asked ME if he had torticollis,

and said he hardly had any facial assymetry, since he was looking so

normal that day, and he was born with a neck that wouldn't budge! BY

that theory, the torticollis would be the initial cause of the plagio

and assymetry, but my guess is that the plagio perpetuates the

torticollis, and the tort in turn the plagio and assymetry.

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> Hi,

>

> DOes anyone bring their child to a DO( Osteopath). Is the reason you

> are bringing them is for the TOrticollis and does your child have

> asymmetry?

> I was just wondering if this type of doctor helps with facial

asymmetry

> or are they just for stretching the neck for a dx of Torticollis?

>

> Thanks

>

>

[Guest guest]

I brought my son Malcolm when he was two months old to a pt who did cranial

manipulation and the myofacial release - she was treating his tort and

hypotonia (low muscle) too. We had no success. In fact, she claimed I made

his head flatter and made his facial asymmetry worse - which was a bogus

lie. Malcolm's plagio was severe and due to uterine constraints which are

intractable and seldom correctable with repo or through an osteopath.

Others, however, with babies whose plagio is mild have had success with an

osteopath.

Carolyn in NYC

Mum to Malcolm - 11 months - Doc Band grad, tort, plagio

Will an Osteopath Help with Facial Asymmetry ?

Hi,

DOes anyone bring their child to a DO( Osteopath). Is the reason you

are bringing them is for the TOrticollis and does your child have

asymmetry?

I was just wondering if this type of doctor helps with facial asymmetry

or are they just for stretching the neck for a dx of Torticollis?

Thanks

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