If you saw our previous reel about bed wetting and the spinal galant reflex, here’s a follow up showing what it might look like when the reflex is retained. If you want to learn more about screening, testing and integrating 5 common primitive reflexes, join our live webinar on January 14th at 3pm EST. Practitioners earn 0.3 AOTA CEUs! Tag a friend or colleague who would be interested in taking this live webinar and we’ll pick a pair randomly to take this course for free! A $150 value for both of

The Galant reflex, also known as the truncal incurvation reflex, is a primitive reflex found in newborns. To test this reflex, the infant is held in ventral suspension (face down) and the examiner runs a finger down one side of the baby’s back, approximately 2-3 centimeters from the spine. A positive response is seen when the baby’s trunk flexes towards the side that is being stimulated. This reflex is important in the assessment of the nervous system’s development and typically disappears by th

Check out this excellent Spinal Galant Reflex, it literally has this baby is 2-steppin 🤣😍 This reflex causes babies to curve their hip outward if the lower back is stroked next to the spine. Its purpose is to encourage movement - which is believed to aid in the natural birthing process (ie contractions stimulating this region➡️helping baby move down the birth canal) & it also contributes to the development of range of movement in the hips needed for crawling & walking. The Spinal Galant is dev

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