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
Is My Baby Going to Be Okay? The Honest Answer About Craniosynostosis
July 14, 2026
There’s a question almost every parent asks without ever saying it out loud.
It sits behind their eyes in the exam room. You can see it in the way a mother’s thumb keeps tracing the same curve along her baby’s head — repeatedly, like she’s checking the answer to a problem she’s terrified she got wrong. She won’t ask the question. Most won’t. But it’s the only...
What to Say When Family Won’t Stop Asking About the Helmet
July 7, 2026
The cereal aisle at the Kroger on 14 Mile is where it usually happens. A cart rolls past, slows, then stops. Eyes drop to the baby strapped in the seat — to the small, molded shell wrapped snug around the head, decorated maybe with stickers, maybe a tiny painted galaxy. And then the look. You know the look. The one that’s half curiosity, half pity, and entirely unwelcome.
Why the Pharmacy Rack Can’t Fix Your Kid’s Feet
June 30, 2026
The insert cost $31 at the pharmacy, and the mother in Utica felt smart for buying it.
Her daughter, seven, had been complaining about her feet after soccer. Aching arches, tired legs, that whining fold onto the couch the second practice ended. The internet had opinions. A forum swore by a gel insert. A cousin knew a brand. The pharmacy aisle had a whole rack of them,...
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...
What “Pediatric Bracing” Actually Means, No Jargon
June 18, 2026
Start with what these things are, because the words scare parents more than the devices ever could.
Pediatric bracing sounds like something out of a hospital drama. In practice, it is a small family of tools, each aimed at a different job, and once a parent can tell them apart, most of the fear drains right out of the room. Here is the field guide, generally to...
