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T1 Infant Cranial Deformity: Cranial Helmet Therapy or Physiotherapy?
A1 González Santos, Josefa
A1 González Bernal, Jerónimo
A1 Fuente Anuncibay, Raquel de la
A1 Soto Cámara, Raúl
A1 Cubo Delgado, Esther
A1 Aguilar-Parra, José M.
A1 Trigueros Ramos, Rubén
A1 López Liria, Remedios
K1 Plagiocephaly
K1 Helmet
K1 Physiotherapy
K1 Intervention
K1 Treatment
K1 Medicina
K1 Medicine
K1 Salud
K1 Health
K1 Neurología
K1 Neurology
K1 Terapéutica
K1 Therapeutics
AB Objective: To compare cranial helmet therapy (CHT) and physiotherapy (PT) for the effectivetreatment 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 cranialdeformities. The Cranial Vault Asymmetry Index (CVAI) and the Brunet–Lezine scale were calculatedat the initiation of the study and after 40 treatment sessions. Results: The infants’ first assessmentshowed a delay in overall development areas with a global developmental quotient (DQ) (posture,coordination, sociability, and language) of 80.15. Although developmental improvements wereobserved in both groups in the Brunet–Lezine scale after treatment, the MANCOVA test showed nosignificant differences (F(5) = 0.82, p = 0.506, eta2 = 0.09). The CVAI reduced to 4.07% during the finalevaluation in the cranial helmet group and 5.85% in the physiotherapy group without any significantdifferences between the two therapies (p = 0.70). Conclusions: No statistically significant differenceswere found between CHT and PT. After treatment, improvements from baseline measurements wereobserved in each of the readings of cranial deformity.
PB MDPI
YR 2020
FD 2020-04
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8795
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8795
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 08-may-2024