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!
Strive OP News
Toe Walking: The Truth Every Parent Deserves to Know
September 30, 2026
Is My Child’s Toe Walking Normal? What an Orthotist Looks For, and What Happens Next
It’s 11:47 p.m. The house in Shelby Township is finally quiet. And a mom is sitting on the edge of the bed, phone glowing, typing the same question she’s typed a dozen times before.
“Is my child’s toe walking normal?”
She’s seen it for months. Her son pads down the hallway on the balls of his feet, heels...
The Hidden Neck Problem Reshaping Your Baby’s Head Right Now
September 23, 2026
She noticed it the way mothers notice everything, which is to say, almost by accident.
It was a Tuesday morning well-baby checkup in Royal Oak. The kind of appointment you pencil in between grocery runs and nap schedules. The kind where you expect to hear that everything looks great, your baby’s gaining weight, see you in two months. But the pediatrician did something that shifted the air in the room. She...
What to expect from Ask the Orthotist, Episode 2: Everyday life in a helmet
September 15, 2026
Your baby’s been prescribed a cranial helmet, and the clinical side makes sense. But now a different set of questions takes over. Will it hurt? Can they sleep in it? What happens at daycare? These are the questions that keep parents up at night, and they deserve straight answers.
That’s exactly what Episode 2 of Ask the Orthotist covers. A credentialed orthotist from Strive Orthotics & Prosthetics walks through the everyday...
Five Minutes on the Floor Could Be the Best Thing You Do for Your Baby
September 9, 2026
She was three weeks old, and she hated it.
Face down on a play mat, fists clenched, cheeks flushed, letting out the kind of wail that makes new parents want to scoop her up and never try this again. Her mother almost did. Almost.
But she didn’t. She got down on the floor instead, nose to nose with her daughter, and started singing. Thirty seconds later,...
Why Helmet Therapy Is Won at Two in the Morning
August 25, 2026
It is 2:14 a.m. in Sterling Heights and the baby monitor is glowing green on the nightstand. The house is quiet. The furnace has cycled off. And a mother is lying flat on her back with her eyes open, doing the thing that nobody warned her about, which is listening.
Not for crying. For breathing.
Her son is eleven weeks into cranial helmet therapy for plagiocephaly, and the helmet has been on...
