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Infant Cranial Deformity: Cranial Helmet Therapy or Physiotherapy? González Santos, Josefa González Bernal, Jerónimo Fuente Anuncibay, Raquel de la Soto Cámara, Raúl Cubo Delgado, Esther Aguilar-Parra, José M. Trigueros Ramos, Rubén López Liria, Remedios Plagiocephaly Helmet Physiotherapy Intervention Treatment Objective: To compare cranial helmet therapy (CHT) and physiotherapy (PT) for the effective treatment of positional plagiocephaly in infants in terms of improving functional recovery. Methods: This was a prospective cohort study involving 48 infants between 5–10 months of age with cranial deformities. The Cranial Vault Asymmetry Index (CVAI) and the Brunet–Lezine scale were calculated at the initiation of the study and after 40 treatment sessions. Results: The infants’ first assessment showed a delay in overall development areas with a global developmental quotient (DQ) (posture, coordination, sociability, and language) of 80.15. Although developmental improvements were observed in both groups in the Brunet–Lezine scale after treatment, the MANCOVA test showed no significant differences (F(5) = 0.82, p = 0.506, eta2 = 0.09). The CVAI reduced to 4.07% during the final evaluation in the cranial helmet group and 5.85% in the physiotherapy group without any significant differences between the two therapies (p = 0.70). Conclusions: No statistically significant differences were found between CHT and PT. After treatment, improvements from baseline measurements were observed in each of the readings of cranial deformity. 2024-03-11T10:48:30Z 2024-03-11T10:48:30Z 2024-03-11T10:48:30Z 2020-04 info:eu-repo/semantics/article http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8795 10.3390/ijerph17072612 1660-4601 eng International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020, V. 17, n. 7, 2612 https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17072612 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 4.0 Internacional MDPI