I told you a couple weeks ago that Rooney has torticollis. Unfortunately, I wasn’t fully impressed with our physical therapist (partly due to personality, partly due to the lack of information she gave me).
Thankfully, one of our blog readers (who wishes to remain anonymous) is a pediatric physical therapist and reached out to help. I researched a lot on my own about torticollis so I could be Rooney’s advocate, but didn’t find anything as helpful and practical as the tips below.
I share this with you because I hope that if your child has torticollis that you feel informed. I am amazed at how common torticollis seems to be nowadays. I had never heard of it before but have a couple friends whose babies (born within a month of Rooney) also have it. Roo’s progress has been great so far and we are so glad we caught it early. We will still probably have to watch it for up to a year, but she should make a full recovery.
I will admit it is hard to remember to do these things sometimes, to stretch her when she does not want to be stretched, to add one more thing to our routine. Honestly, day care does most of it now that we only see her for an hour each evening. But we have made quite a few changes in our house to encourage her (moved her to her crib, carry her around in the tilt stretch, position ourselves on her left side during play, make her turn her head to the left if she wants to watch TV, etc.).
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