Physical Therapy

When we took Jeremiah in for his 6 month well child check, the Doctor said that he has Right Torticollis. This is where the muscle on his right side of his neck is shorter than the one on his left side. Thus, Jeremiah loves to turn his head to the right and then kink it back to lay his head on his left shoulder. To treat this condition, we have to take Jeremiah to a Physical Therapist twice a week for a while (I'm not sure how long). This is a little difficult because we are moving in two weeks. We did get to see a therapist twice last week, but will not be able to see him for the next two weeks because our insurance ends on the 31st. We are doing stretches with Jeremiah to encourage him to turn his head to the left and to hold his head up in a neutral position when he is sitting or laying on his tummy! Jeremiah is doing pretty good with all of this and doesn't seem to mind too much in the change of positions that I am supposed to hold him in now when I feed him and when I am putting him to bed. At least, I thought that he was doing good, until this morning he cried from 4:45 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. and finally calmed down enough (with me rubbing his neck) to eat and then to go to sleep. He then did good the rest of the day, but then started to scream like that again from 1:45 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. This of course was while we were at church and while Ammon was teaching Sunday School, so I again had to turn my mind to singing every Primary Song that I knew and to try to block out the screaming and ignore the looks that I got from the other people in the hallway and in the Mother's Room at church. My poor baby is probably sore and tired of all of the new exercise and stretching he has to do constantly when he is awake every day. I know that the stretches and exercises are helping! He is already learning to roll over the other way than what he normally did and is turning his head to look at things instead of arching his back to move his head to see something. I hope that he continues to progress even though it will be a while before we get insurance in the new state and going through the whole process to see a physical therapist.