Objective To determine the effectiveness of helmet therapy for positional skull deformation
compared with the natural course of the condition in infants aged 5-6 months. Design …

Object Positional plagiocephaly (PP) has been on the rise in recent years. In this review, the
authors' aim was to assess the effectiveness of current recommendations to parents on this …

Osteopathic medicine is a form of complementary and alternative medicine. Osteopathic
practitioners treat patients of all ages: according to the Osteopathic International Alliance's …

An international group of clinicians working in the field of dysmorphology has established a
process for the standardization of terms used to describe human morphology. The goals are …

Deformational plagiocephaly (DP) occurs frequently in otherwise healthy infants. Many
infants with DP undergo physiotherapy or helmet therapy, and ample treatment-related …

Introduction: Deformational plagiocephaly (DP) is cranial flattening on one side of the back
of the skull produced by an extrinsic force on the intrinsically normal skull. When the …

Non-synostotic plagiocephaly consists in an asymmetry of the skull due to mechanical forces
applied in utero or postnatally: main differential diagnosis is with true synostotic asymmetry …

Background.​ Congenital Muscular Torticollis(CMT) is the most common form of torticollis in
infants;; on clinical presentation it is classified into 3 types:(i) postural torticollis, with postural …

Background: The congenital muscular torticollis is characterized by a persistent lateral
flexion of the head to the affected side and cervical rotation to the opposite side due to …

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