ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2021
Natural-Course Evaluation of Infants with Positional Severe Plagiocephaly Using a Three-Dimensional Scanner in Japan: Comparison with Those Who Received Cranial Helmet Therapy.
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- Feasibility of a pilot randomized controlled trial on cranial remolding orthosis for severe deformational plagiocephaly.Canadian prosthetics & orthotics journal · 2026Article
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- Natural Progression of Cranial Shape Following Helmet Therapy for Deformational Plagiocephaly.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- 3D-printed cranial helmet therapy for the treatment of deformational plagiocephaly.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
- Therapeutic Effectiveness of a Novel Cranial Remolding Helmet (baby band2) for Positional Plagiocephaly: A Multicenter Clinical Observational Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Efficacy of Cranial Orthosis for Plagiocephaly Based on 2D and 3D Evaluation.Archives of plastic surgery · 2024Article
- Effectiveness of Helmet therapy for infants with moderate to severe positional plagiocephaly.Clinical and experimental pediatrics · 2024Article
- Smartphone Photogrammetric Assessment for Head Measurements.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Evaluating Cranial Growth in Japanese Infants Using a Three-dimensional Scanner: Relationship between Growth-related Parameters and Deformational Plagiocephaly.Neurologia medico-chirurgica · 2022Article
- Three-Dimensional versus Two-Dimensional Evaluations of Cranial Asymmetry in Deformational Plagiocephaly Using a Three-Dimensional Scanner.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Reference Values for Cranial Morphology Based on Three-dimensional Scan Analysis in 1-month-old Healthy Infants in Japan.Neurologia medico-chirurgica · 2022Article
- Cranial Shape in Infants Aged One Month Can Predict the Severity of Deformational Plagiocephaly at the Age of Six Months.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
This study aimed to clarify the natural course of positional plagiocephaly using a three-dimensional (3D) scanner and investigate the effectiveness of cranial helmet therapy (CHT). One hundred infants with severe plagiocephaly who visited our institutions between April 2020 and March 2021 were included. Cranial shape was measured using an Artec Eva 3D scanner. A cranial asymmetry (CA) >12 mm was diagnosed as severe plagiocephaly. An infant whose CA subsided to <12 mm was considered to have improved naturally or by CHT. The difference in CA between the second and initial scans was defined as the improvement value (median scan interval was two months). In the natural-course group comprising 56 infants with severe plagiocephaly, 37 (66%) with a median CA of 15.6 mm exhibited no improvement after two months. In the scan age- and evaluation interval-matched case-control study, the CA value in the CHT group improved by three times that in the natural-course group (-4.6 mm [
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