Re: Done with helmet! Or not...

[Guest guest]

Hi Sylvere,

Sydney had brachycephaly which is flat in back, rather than asymmetry

which is plagiocephaly. with brachy the measurement is

Cranial ratio = cranial width/cranial length.

in other words how wide the head is relative to the length front to

back. normal is around 80%. so by measuring sydney's head side to

side, then front to back then dividing you get 85%.

with plagio you generally look at how may mm difference there are

between the two diagonal measurements of the head. sydney's diagonal

measurement are off by about 3.5 mm which is juat about normal (I

think normal is 0-3 mm), so she doesn't have plagio.

-christine

sydney 16 mo starband grad

> > >

> > > Well we decided that we were done with the helmet

> > yesterday and the

> > > Orthotist said his head was good enough to stop.

> > His score was between

> > > 90 and 91. Now that it is warmer out London is

> > sweating a lot in it and

> > > we just wanted to be done. Well when I was giving

> > him a bath last night

> > > I was looking at it and decided it could be

> > better. Today I put it back

> > > on him and I think we are going to have him just

> > wear it at home in the

> > > air conditioning and see what happens in a month

> > or so. I figured we

> > > had to pay all that money for it, we might as well

> > see if it can do any

> > > better. It still has some room to grow in it so it

> > should be fine. I'm

> > > such a perfectionist and I hate it sometimes.

> > Tonight I saw a couple

> > > guys at blockbuster whose heads weren't very

> > round. It made me feel

> > > better.

> > >

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