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. 2024 Oct;36(4):217-223.
doi: 10.1097/jpo.0000000000000481. Epub 2023 Aug 11.

Success Rates of Cranial Remolding Orthosis Treatment of Plagiocephaly Based on Initial Presentation

Chelsea J Richards  1 , Alyssa M Petz  1 , Claire E Vallery  1 , Matheos Yosef  2 , Shokoufeh H Khalatbari  2 , Christopher J Frank  3   4 , Jennifer A Richards  1
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Success Rates of Cranial Remolding Orthosis Treatment of Plagiocephaly Based on Initial Presentation

Chelsea J Richards et al. J Prosthet Orthot. 2024 Oct.
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Conflict of interest: The authors worked at the University of Michigan while working on the study and none of them have conflicts of interest to disclose. None of the authors were the treating clinicians of the infants in the study.

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Michigan Cranial Reshaping Orthosis
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Success rates for a) corrected age groups and b) severity groups.
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Figure 3:
Success rates for combined corrected age and severity groups.
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