Lower Developmental Scores at Age 3 Seen in Plagiocephaly Parents should be educated about development of positional plagiocephaly before presenting at 2-month well-child visits. (HealthDay News) – ...

Newborns’ soft skulls can be misshapen in childbirth, which usually resolves on its own within the first month or so. But some babies develop positional plagiocephaly, a condition often caused by ...

In a new study, infants averaging six months of age who exhibited positional plagiocephaly (flat head syndrome) had lower scores than typical infants in observational tests used to evaluate cognitive ...

Parents of brachycephalic infants who are concerned about their infant's head shape should be counseled and reassured that it is normal and that no treatment is necessary. Prevention measures should ...

When Sara Pacheco takes her 2-month-old son in for checkups, he gets all the measuring, weighing and stethoscope time you might expect. But the doctor also carefully examines the shape of the baby’s ...

Does your baby seem to have a head that’s flatter on one side than the other? Positional plagiocephaly is a term used to describe a baby’s flattened or misshapen head — usually on the back or one side ...

Deformational plagiocephaly (DP) refers to asymmetry of the infant skull characterized by flattening or deformation. DP can include facial and neck asymmetry. Congenital muscular torticollis (CMT) is ...