Car Seats, Infant Carriers, and Swings: Their Role in Deformational Plagiocephaly

Journal of Prosthetics and Orthotics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 102-106

  Littlefield, Timothy R ^a   Kelly, Kevin M ^a,b   Reiff, Jacque L ^c   Pomatto, Jeanne K ^a  

^a Cranial Technologies Incorporated   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Car seat; Deformation; Etiology; Infant carrier; Plagiocephaly

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD CARE; DEVICE; HEAD POSITION; HEIGHT; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; PHOTOGRAPHY; PLAGIOCEPHALY; PRESSURE; SKULL DEFECT; SLEEP; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 0042632646     PISSN: 10408800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00008526-200307000-00010     Document Type: Article

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