Retained Neonatal Reflexes

By Lucy Lex

Retained Primitive Reflexes may be the reasoning for you or your child’s anxiety, behaviour and poor emotional regulation.

Have you noticed issues like anxiety, poor coordination, learning difficulties or behavioural problems in you or your child? These may be linked to retained primitive reflexes. These involuntary motor responses, present from birth, play a crucial role in an infant’s survival and development. As children grow, these reflexes should integrate into more advanced, voluntary skills.

Why Might Reflexes Remain?

Primitive reflexes can fail to integrate due to factors like:

• Lack of movement in early childhood

• Maternal stress during pregnancy

• Injuries or illnesses

• Trauma or exposure to environmental toxins

How Chiropractic Care Can Help

Primitive reflexes can be integrated with targeted chiropractic adjustments and specific exercises. This is absolutely crucial for motor development, coordination, sensory processing, and emotional regulation.

School holidays are coming up and this is the perfect time to get your child checked so they can return in Term 4 feeling refreshed and ready to reach their full potential.