Re: Finally posted a pic....wondering if her helmet sits too high

[Guest guest]

Yes, the band does look too high to me if you're trying to get

correction on the forehead. Please tell us what your ortho says

about this. BTW your daughter is adorable.

-christine

sydney 2 yrs starband grad

>

> Hi ladies,

>

> I finally got a picture of posted in the albums (Our

Plagio

> Babies N...titled P.).

>

> I have never thought that her helmet fit odd or badly and we are

> definitely seeing improvement but after looking at so many other

> pictures in the albums, I am starting to wonder if 's

helmet

> sits too high on her head. I know the last time we went in, he

said

> he wanted to work on getting the top of her forehead pushed back

so

> maybe that is why.

>

> We go to have our helmet adjusted tomorrow so I may ask and see

why

> he doesn't have it down on her eyebrows.

>

> Thanks!

>

> Dawn

> - almost 7 months

> Torticollis, Plagio, Brachi

> In the Starband 4 weeks tomorrow

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Dawn-

It does seem high. But my main concern is the statement by your

ortho that he wants to " get the forehead pushed back. " From all of

my research and what I have been told (by a few people at Cranial

Tech), you can't push the prominent areas of the head back into

place. You can only hold them in place by providing gentle pressure

in those areas, forcing the flatter areas to grow outward instead.

The skull will follow the path of least resistance, so by holding

the prominent areas in place, the flat spots have nowhere else to go

but out, thereby making the head more symmetric and round. But you

can't push the prominent areas back in once they've grown out.

Take for example babies with brachy, which is extra width in the

head and a flat spot on the back. There's no way to push the sides

of the head in to make the head less wide, so with a brachy baby,

the head will always be wider than it probably would have been had

no brachy developed at all. But with a helmet holding the sides and

not allowing them to grow out further, you can help the back of the

head grow out and improve the overall headshape by making it more

round and symmetrical. But in the end, the head will still be wide.

Another example is my son's plagio. He had severe forehead bulging

to start on his right side. The helmet holds that bulge so that it's

doesn't get worse, and allows for the left side to pop out and

become even with the right side. It doesn't push his right side in,

it will always be out, but with the left side out too, it will be

more symmetrical and less noticeable (that doesn't mean that he

looks like he has a entire bulging forehead now instead of just one

side, it still looks like a normal forehead but is just more even on

both sides).

So I would ask your ortho exactly what he meant by that. I would be

concerned if he believes you can push the skull back into place.

Aside from it not being true, that is not how the helmet was made to

work. Please let us know what he says.

Jake-21m (tort resolved/rt plagio/DOCBand #2-Day 4)

Jordan-4

>

> Hi ladies,

>

> I finally got a picture of posted in the albums (Our

Plagio

> Babies N...titled P.).

>

> I have never thought that her helmet fit odd or badly and we are

> definitely seeing improvement but after looking at so many other

> pictures in the albums, I am starting to wonder if 's

helmet

> sits too high on her head. I know the last time we went in, he

said

> he wanted to work on getting the top of her forehead pushed back

so

> maybe that is why.

>

> We go to have our helmet adjusted tomorrow so I may ask and see

why

> he doesn't have it down on her eyebrows.

>

> Thanks!

>

> Dawn

> - almost 7 months

> Torticollis, Plagio, Brachi

> In the Starband 4 weeks tomorrow

>

[Guest guest]

> >

> > Hi ladies,

> >

> > I finally got a picture of posted in the albums (Our

> Plagio

> > Babies N...titled P.).

> >

> > I have never thought that her helmet fit odd or badly and we are

> > definitely seeing improvement but after looking at so many other

> > pictures in the albums, I am starting to wonder if 's

> helmet

> > sits too high on her head. I know the last time we went in, he

> said

> > he wanted to work on getting the top of her forehead pushed back

> so

> > maybe that is why.

> >

> > We go to have our helmet adjusted tomorrow so I may ask and see

> why

> > he doesn't have it down on her eyebrows.

> >

> > Thanks!

> >

> > Dawn

> > - almost 7 months

> > Torticollis, Plagio, Brachy

> > In the Starband 4 weeks tomorrow

> >

>

[Guest guest]

LOL! Too funny! My husband would have said the exact same thing (I'm

always having to ask him multiple detailed follow-up questions if I

ever expect to get the full story). I'm so glad it was his

interpretation and NOT the ortho's, that's at least one thing you

don't have to worry about. Whew! Still let us know about the high

cut of the forehead. If doesn't have a lot of forehead

bossing, it might not be necessary for it to come all the way down,

however I've still heard it's important to get it low enough that it

acts as a good holding point.

I'm still laughing...

Jake-20m

> > >

> > > Hi ladies,

> > >

> > > I finally got a picture of posted in the albums (Our

> > Plagio

> > > Babies N...titled P.).

> > >

> > > I have never thought that her helmet fit odd or badly and we

are

> > > definitely seeing improvement but after looking at so many

other

> > > pictures in the albums, I am starting to wonder if 's

> > helmet

> > > sits too high on her head. I know the last time we went in, he

> > said

> > > he wanted to work on getting the top of her forehead pushed

back

> > so

> > > maybe that is why.

> > >

> > > We go to have our helmet adjusted tomorrow so I may ask and

see

> > why

> > > he doesn't have it down on her eyebrows.

> > >

> > > Thanks!

> > >

> > > Dawn

> > > - almost 7 months

> > > Torticollis, Plagio, Brachy

> > > In the Starband 4 weeks tomorrow

> > >

> >

>