Clinics with mottos like "reshaping children's lives" devise their own guidelines for helmet therapy and sell baby helmets, which can be personalized with Star Wars and Minnie Mouse motifs.
If your baby’s plagiocephaly is moderate to severe, we may recommend using a helmet or headband to reshape their skull. Helmet therapy may also help if positional therapy hasn’t worked. Because this ...
Parents and some scientists want more research and clearer guidance on whether helmets successfully treat flat head syndrome ...
About 2 weeks after surgery, your baby will start wearing a soft helmet. It puts gentle pressure on their skull. The helmet molds their head to a more normal shape that can expand as their brain grows ...
If positional plagiocephaly is moderate or severe, your healthcare team will talk to you about whether helmet therapy is right for your baby. At Seattle Children’s, we use the Starband helmet. It fits ...
Helmet therapy helped correct Adaya's head shape. Mandy knew something wasn’t right as soon she laid eyes on her new baby girl. “I’m a labor and delivery nurse and since she was born breach by ...
Southmead Hospital runs the only NHS clinic offering helmet therapy for infants with flattened ... cases it just resolves spontaneously as the baby grows and begins to sit up and crawl".