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When Virginia mom Nicole Dodge first noticed her now 2-year-old daughter was moving her arm strangely, she never expected days later to hear the diagnosis she did.
In early 2022, the mom of five was sitting in her kitchen when she noticed her youngest daughter, Natalie, was only using the bottom half of her arm. “I thought I was crazy,” she tells PEOPLE.
Initially thinking it could be a shoulder injury, Dodge sent a video of Natalie, who was 15 months old at the time, to her husband Andrew, a chiropractor, and to her sister and her husband who are both physical therapists.
“We all came to this conclusion that maybe it was a partial dislocation and maybe it would work itself out if we gave it through the weekend,” she recalls. “It was a Friday afternoon, it was the beginning of 2022, so there were still heightened COVID protocols in hospitals. My only option at that point was to go to the ER. She wasn’t even crying so that seemed really extreme.”
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