We have been getting the cranial sacral therapy for a while now. The place that we take Adelynn, Faulkner Physical Therapy, is one of the best places to receive this type of therapy and also Joan, the owner, is one of the best therapist. We started seeing Joan in the winter, shortly after that (we definitely saw some improvement), Joan became ill and we had a little over a month without therapy. I stopped doing Adelynn's torticollis stretches because I felt like I didn't notice it anymore. I did start noticing some asymmetry in her face. In February, we started seeing Debbie, which is Joan's daughter - she felt like she saw some improvement. I ended up having to see Joan again and noticed some improvement right away! Around April/May, Joan had commented how Adelynn's temple has moved away from her face. I totally panicked! I knew there was some asymmetry but I didn't know how severe it was! Another problem was that our insurance didn't approve anymore visits, saying that her torticollis is improved enough. I started balling my eyes out and called cranial technologies right away. They did a full head scan of her and as you can see in the picture, the toritcollis is pretty bad. I think she had a growth spurt which made it even worse. (Every time Adelynn has a growth spurt, her torticollis seems to come back). Also, her Ptosis in the eye doesn't help with the asymmetry.
You can see in the image that her head is tilted to the left and also that her left eye is lower than the other one?
Below is the report. You can see that her head shape from the side looks pretty good. It's when you look at a different angle that you can see the flat spot. Also, one ear is lower than the other. I found out that most of this asymmetry is caused by her torticollis. Her flatness is rated as 9mm, which anything over 6mm they recommend the helmet. They told us that we still have a little time to discuss what we would like to do. They will do the helmet up until 18 months. I took this information back to Debbie and Joan and they both said to wait and see if there is anymore improvement. I called our insurance and spoke to many different people and was able to get more visits!!!!
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