Plagiocephaly
This common condition, also known as Flat Head Syndrome, is very treatable using repositioning techniques. In more severe cases, a Talee® cranial helmet will gently correct your baby’s head as your infant grows.
Pediatric Orthotics
Pediatric orthotics is a unique specialty requiring specific skills. Children are constantly growing and changing and present with a variety of special challenges. Our pediatric orthotic solutions allow for care of children with a wide variety of presentations.
Prosthetics
We specialize in providing prosthetic devices for growing children, traumatic amputations, and dysvascular/diabetic amputees. Here at Strive, we pride ourselves in our creativity and we always strive for perfection.
We Take Most Insurance
To be as accessible as possible, we take many insurance plans, including Medicaid. We are continuously working to contract with new providers, and the list is always growing!
News & Announcements
Five Months of “It’ll Get Better.” Then This Sterling Heights Mom Stopped Waiting
June 29, 2026
The first time Jenna noticed it, she wasn’t looking for anything. She was just rinsing shampoo off the back of her daughter’s head in the kitchen sink, the way she had a hundred times before, and her palm caught a flatness she couldn’t un-feel. Not a bump. The opposite of a bump. A place where the round should have been and wasn’t.
She was a Sterling Heights...
Strive Orthotics & Prosthetics Selects Talee® as Its New Cranial Orthotic Device for Infants
June 16, 2026
Michigan’s only pediatric-specialized O&P clinic adopts the advanced 3D-printed cranial remolding system for babies with plagiocephaly and brachycephaly
SHELBY TOWNSHIP, Mich. – June 16, 2026 – Strive Orthotics & Prosthetics, the only pediatric-specialized orthotics and prosthetics clinic in Michigan, today announced it has selected Talee® as its new cranial orthotic device for infants. The transition is effective immediately, with Talee now available to families across metro Detroit who are seeking treatment...
What Every Parent Needs to Know About Scaphocephaly — Before the Window Closes
June 9, 2026
You’re scrolling through photos of your baby. The hospital shots, the one-month, the three-month. And somewhere around the fourth or fifth swipe, you tilt your phone sideways. You look at the head’s shape from above. Long. Narrow. Almost boat-like.
You tell yourself you’re imagining it.
You’re probably not.
Scaphocephaly is the most common form of a condition called craniosynostosis, and it affects roughly one in every 2,000 to 2,500 babies. The name comes...
The Top 7 Things That Actually Help an Infant Get Through a Helmet Summer
June 4, 2026
The Top 7 Things That Actually Help an Infant Get Through a Helmet Summer
It can be challenging for a parent to ensure the helmet is worn 23 hours a day. Then July hits, the thermometer reads 94, and “normal” goes out the window along with the breeze that isn’t coming through it.
If you’re parenting an infant through cranial helmet therapy this summer, you already know the basic math. The...
