Bonus: 5 most common primitive reflexes

Foreign aloha. This is your bonus video Sensory Heroes for primitive Reflexes. Primitive reflexes is not something we've addressed a lot or really mentioned much at all in this, in this, in this particular challenge. But I wanted to just kind of give you a general overview of about the primitive reflexes because in, in clinic we deal with them a lot and they're key underlying component that's causing, oftentimes causing the nervous system to be in that fight flight mode or that shutdown mode or to be uncoordinated. And so I just wanted to give you kind of an overview of the five most common ones that we see and that we test for and just give you just a general idea of how we test for these. And if there's interest, you guys can let me know, I can make another, I can make another product that's more about all the reflexes. But I just wanted to touch on it. So two that we see very, very commonly are protective reflexes, the fear paralysis reflex and the moro reflex. So the kids that have the fear paralysis reflex, one of the ways we can test for it is when we have them lay on their back and they close their eyes, you will see their eyelashes just flip, fluttering nervously. They just go. And if we, if we, we would ask permission first. But if we tap on their chest or on their shoulders, it accelerates the, how much they're moving. So if you notice when your child is just laying there closing their eyes that they, they don't look relaxed, they, they could very possibly have a fear paralysis reflex. And that reflex tends to make the kids withdraw, want to shut down. We have to be really, really respectful of not over stimulating those kids. And there are ways to work on it. In the clinic, we work on it through, through therapeutic exercises, through intentional play activities that help integrate the reflexes. And we also do it through qri, which is quantum reflex integration, which is using laser to, to stimulate different points in the body that help. We do that as a wellness program. It's not ot, but we do that to help integrate the reflexes. And it works really well. And so those are a few different options. But like I said in this video, I just mainly kind of want to give a little overview just to kind of help you understand that a lot of times it's the reflexes that are causing the challenges that the kids are having. Another really common one is the moral reflex. And the moral reflex is, is present when they're little baby and, and it responds to all the different senses. So touch, light, sound, movement, Anything, anything that they're not expecting and they, they, they throw their arms back and they shake and their eyes get big and they gasp and then they, and they come back, they recover and, and then they back, back to homeostasis. So what we'll see when we test that is if the child, say, laying on their back, I'll take two fingers behind their neck and lift up and you'll just see them stiffen up. They just, their neck isn't flexible and their eyes get big. They might breathe in, their hands might open. You can also see it like, if you just lift under their, under their knees, you'll see them stiffen up and, and just like an increased tone. Or if you were to tip them. We don't usually do this, this one because we really don't want to lose our trust with them, don't want to freak them out too much. But if, if we were to like tip them backwards, you would, you would see this kind of motion. So with the, with the, with the moral reflex again, there's play activities, exercise, QRI are the ways that we address it. There is an exercise called the Starfish that really well. And we teach people how to do that often in the clinic. So the other three reflexes I wanted to mention are, are the neck reflexes. So these all have to do with head movement and overflow into the body of the arms and legs of making the arms straightener bent or straightener bend just based on head movements. So you can imagine if every time you moved your head, something happened in your body. That's kind of a problem. We should be able to move our head around and nothing happens in our body. So the way we test it is if we're in a crawling position on all fours, making sure that the elbows are not locked tight. If they lock their elbows tight, that's usually. Or if they can't even get into that position, that's usually one of the reflexes because it's just difficult position for them to be in. But say you get them in all fours and the, and the elbow isn't locked. And then you turn their head and, and then on the back side of the head, that arm buckles. That's called the asymmetrical tonic neck reflex, the atnr. And the other one that we'll see in that position, we get them on all fours and if we have them look up, then they, they end up kind of sitting back on their feet. They can't maintain that quadruped position. Or if they look down, their arms buckle so, so that's the symmetrical tonic neck reflex. That one is usually integrated by. When they. Right before they crawl, the kids will rock back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. I call that revving up the engine. And so, so that one has a big effect on when they're sitting at the table. That's a very similar position to when you're on your hands and knees because your hips are at 90 and your arms are out in front of you. And what happens is they look down and their hips open up and it makes their little bottom slide out of the chair. And next thing you know, they're on the floor and they're like, how did I get on the floor? And another way that we'll see the, the first one I mentioned, the asymmetrical tonic neck reflex. It's often the culprit for a death grip on the pencil because when they move their head because the arm wants to be bend when they turn, then they learn subconsciously to have this like, death grip on the, on the pencil and to stabilize. So, so basically, when these reflexes are in place, it makes it hard for them to, to have like, a foundation to work off of. The third neck reflex that we'll see is the tonic neck reflex. And so that one is, we test it when they're in standing and we just have them with their eyes closed, tip their head down, and sometimes their knees will buckle. We have to be ready to catch them, or they tilt back and they just kind of. They can't hold that position and they, they lose their balance. So those are the five most common. And then actually a couple more that we see. If they're having toileting problems, we'll see some of the spinal reflexes causing them problems, the spinal perez and spinal glant. But there's a whole bunch of reflexes. I think it's like 17 or something like that that we test it. It's. It's quite a comprehensive thing. It's a whole nother, whole nother layer. And the intention of, of this challenge is to give you tools and things that are, are things that you can do now, like I said, to calm yourself. Calming environment and tools for the child. These underlying things are, are harder to address on your own. And so I know it's hard when you're waiting to get in for therapy, but at least you kind of have a general idea of some of the other things that could be going on that are common to be causing challenges. And I hope that that's helpful to you and, and Like I said, if you have questions, talk to me in the community. I would be happy to answer any questions that you have. Okay. Aloha.