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
Houston, We Have a Costume
October 27, 2026
Every October, millions of parents go through the same ritual. They stand in a costume aisle under fluorescent lights, holding a tiny dinosaur suit in one hand and a tiny pumpkin suit in the other, trying to figure out which one their baby will tolerate for more than four minutes.
The hat is always the problem. Babies hate hats. Babies treat hats the way cats treat bath time. You put it...
Arm Braces for Kids-What Nobody Tells Parents
October 21, 2026
Jenna Kowalski has a list on her phone. It started as three questions. By the time she backed out of her driveway in Royal Oak and pointed the minivan up I-75 toward the Strive OP clinic in Sterling Heights, it had grown to eleven.
Her son Theo is four. He was born with a brachial plexus injury on his right side, and his occupational therapist has been working with him since...
Born Early Flat Early – Does Premature Birth Raise the Risk?
October 15, 2026
It is 2:07 a.m. in Royal Oak, and the only light in the nursery is a phone screen.
The baby finally went down. She came home from the NICU five weeks ago, after a long stretch of beeping monitors, feeding logs, and nurses who learned her moods before her parents did. Now her mom stands over the crib, looking at the back of that tiny head and noticing something she can’t...
AFO, KAFO, HKAFO: Three Sets of Letters, One Leg, and What Every Parent Should Know
October 7, 2026
A parent in Sterling Heights sits in an exam room on a Tuesday afternoon. The appointment has gone well enough. The clinician was kind. Then, in about ninety seconds, three sets of initials go by: AFO, KAFO, HKAFO.
The parent nods. The parents write them down. And the parent drives home on Van Dyke with no clear idea what any of them mean.
That happens every day in Shelby Township, Warren, Royal...
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...
