Deformidades cranealesetiología y consecuencias

Abstract

Since in the beginning of the 21st century it came to prevent sudden infant death, one of the measures taken was the adoption of supine sleeping recommendations to prevent sudden infant death syndrome, and consequently to this measure, increased cranial deformities, each time in a larger number of infants still present. Other authors attribute its origin to a bad position of the fetus or the work of the mother or other causes. On the other hand, the consequences of these cranial deformities are not nothing established, for a few authors there is some sort of delay in psychomotor development, and for others not. Therapeutic measures are different according to the approach of the specialist, combining the helmet, physical therapy or in some cases the child’s own development. In this article we have tried to clarify a bit the way to discern both the causes and consequences of cranial deformities.