It's a big word for a fairly common occurrence: plagiocephaly (pronounced play-gee-oh-sef-a-lee), which is Greek for oblique or slanted head. The condition refers to an asymmetrical skull, and it ...

Babies are born with soft skulls for good reason. After all, their relatively large heads have to pass through the narrow birth canal. The bony plates of their skull only fuse together gradually, ...

The number of cases of deformational plagiocephaly increased dramatically after the "back to sleep" campaign to reduce sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS. Researchers differ on how they think ...

Developmental Concerns Associated With Plagiocephaly. Developmental consequences of deformational plagiocephaly have been described; [48,49,50,51,52,53] more research is needed to confirm these ...

If Your Baby's Head Looks Flat, It Could Be A Treatable Condition Called Positional Plagiocephaly. ScienceDaily . Retrieved April 16, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2007 / 11 ...

If you hear that your infant has plagiocephaly, the name might sound scary or even confusing. The good news is, this common disorder found in infants is very treatable, and not at all painful. If ...

A new review of the Texas Birth Defects Registry shows that cases of flattened heads (plagiocephaly) increased nine-fold between 1999 and 2007, rising from 2.6 cases per 10,000 live births all the ...

Positional plagiocephaly can occur because your baby is not just a softy when born, but a softy head. His or her skull has still not fully fused and hardened.

Brendan Davis is diagnosed with plagiocephaly. 7-month-old Brendan Davis, who was diagnosed with plagiocephaly, wears a "Back to the Future"-themed helmet created by Paula Strawn. Emily Davis ...

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 ...

March 20 is National Plagiocephaly and Torticollis Awareness Day, and Storey hopes sharing Jackson's helmet success story will help educate parents whose babies may need the same treatment.

An infant presenting with an abnormal head shape requires careful investigation. The etiology of cranial dysmorphology can be divided into 3 categories that include: [6] The term plagiocephaly is ...