Head Safety

Forum for parents of injured who are seeking information from other parents or people living with the injury. All welcome
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Bonnie
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Joined: Tue Feb 05, 2002 4:21 pm

Head Safety

Post by Bonnie »

My daughter is nearly 15 months old and is falling a lot. I have asked her PT about a helmet or some sort of protective head thingy especially for when she is outside, walking on the pavement!

Can you please tell me where I would look to find what there is available. I don't really want her to have to wear a big helmet. Avery's PT is faxing some pages from a catalogue to me but I just checked out their web site and don't really see anything for less that $150 or that is small enough.

Thanks. I love having this resource/support!
Bonnie
Francine_Litz
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Joined: Sat Mar 22, 2003 9:03 pm

Re: Head Safety

Post by Francine_Litz »

bonnie - how about this?

http://www.cyberbabymall.com/5094.html

Francine_Litz
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Re: Head Safety

Post by Francine_Litz »

I guess the other thing I wanted to add is that Maia started walking at 22 months and she fell ALL the time. And as she gained more confidence and got better at walking- she STILL fell all the time...every few steps actually. She got evaluated by a PT and they fitted her with orthotics. She immediately stopped falling. She wore them for about 6 months and it stabilized really well and she stopped wearing the orthotics. Now- she's almost 5 and she's falling a lot again - so she'll be re-evaluated for new orthotics. The orthotics fit into her shoe - you couldn't even see them and it made a world of difference...she has left leg weakness and her toes were turned in (meaning that her whole leg was turned in) and the orthotic made the foot sit in a neutral position so that the leg would get more balanced. It was really great.

Also - no matter what helmet you get - it's not going to cover your sweety's face! And face down they always go!

good luck,
francine
marymom
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Joined: Mon Nov 05, 2001 5:05 pm
Injury Description, Date, extent, surgical intervention etc: Teen aged home birthed son with OBPI
Location: Fort Pierce, FL

Re: Head Safety

Post by marymom »

oh man
the bruise line
thats what we used to call the line of bruises accross Maxs head from falling and not putting his arm out to catch himself,
I used a toddler bike helmit when he climbed the trees and when we rode bikes, not sure but thats alot less pricey ~under 20$, Walmart.
Look for the baby/toddler sizes.
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