Health And General Life Care: [Plagio] Re: Another new person to the group!!!

[Plagio] Re: Another new person to the group!!!

Friday, 18 January 2008

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If it is messing with her facial features then I would get a second
opinion. My son's ear is slightly forward and the doc thought that it
was an issue.

--- In Plagiocephaly@yahoogroups.com, "Dawn" <dmpearson@...> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone! My 2.5 month old daughter was diagnosed with positional
> left side posterior plagiocephaly at her 2 month appointment and mild
> torticollis. The ped is sending us to see a physical therapist
> tomorrow for a torticollis eval, anyone know what we should expect
> out of that meeting?
>
> My ped is fairly conservative about the plagio and keeps telling me
> that no one has the perfect head shape and everyone is a bit
> asymetrical but it just doesn't sit well with me. My daughter's
> plagio, while not shockingly obvious is messing with her facial
> features by shoving her ear forward, her cheek on the flat side is
> rounder and sticks out more and even the eye sockets seem different
> to me. After getting the dx, it did not feel comfortable to me to
> just sit around for 2 more months and see what happens so I called
> the STARband orthoist in our area to ask him for specialist names
> that I could go to. He was shocked to learn that the ped had dx her
> but not taken any measurements so he offered to measure her himself
> tomorrow to see where she falls on the mild to severe spectrum and if
> she would even be a candidate for a band. I am going to predict that
> she will fall into the low end of moderate since it is messing with
> her facial features...
>
> Is there anything else that I need to do or people I should contact
> to get this started?
>

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