Feb10th 2025Guiding Your Child to Better Neck Mobility Seeing your child face any physical challenge can be heart-wrenching as a parent. One such condition, often noticeable in infants and toddlers, is torticollis—a stiffness in the neck which leads to a tilted head. But here’s the silver lining: Overcoming torticollis with pediatric physical therapy is not only
Feb10th 2024“Torticollis” translates literally to “twisted neck,” which can make it an alarming diagnosis to receive about your infant. In reality, however, torticollis affects about 16% of newborns, and the condition is usually easily resolved. At Mark Their Words Therapy Services, we offer one of its best treatments: pediatric physical therapy for torticollis. Torticollis has several
Dec15th 2016Today, many more babies have flat spots on their heads, far more than 20 years ago. In fact, it is now common to see babies out in public wearing orthotic helmets and to hear stories about their courses of physical therapy. In the 1970’s, studies showed that 1 in 300 infants were diagnosed with plagiocephaly
