Reflexes - Ch. 5 Flashcards
Rooting
Age onset: 28 weeks gestation
Integration age: 3 months
Stimulus: Stroke corner of mouth, upper/lower lip
Response: movement of mouth/head towards stimulus
Relevance: Allows searching for/locating feeding source
Suck-swallow
Age onset: 28 weeks gestation
Integration age: 2-5 months
Stimulus: place finger inside mouth while head in midline
Response: strong, rhythmical sucking
Relevance: Allows ingestion of nourishment
Traction
Age onset: 28 weeks gestation
Integration age: 2-5 months
Stimulus: grasp infant’s forearms to pull-to-sit
Response: complete flexion of upper extremities
Relevance: Enhances momentary reflexive grasp
Moro
Age onset: 28 weeks gestation
Integration age: 4-6 months
Stimulus: Rapidly drop infant’s head backwards
Response: 1) arm extension/abduction; hand opening, 2) arm flexion and adduction
Relevance: Facilitates ability to depart from dominant flexor posture: protective response
Plantar grasp
Age onset: 28 weeks gestation
Integration age: 9 months
Stimulus: apply pressure w/ thumb to ball of foot
Response: toe flexion
Relevance: increases tactile input to sole of foot
Galant
Age onset: 32 weeks gestation
Integration age: 2 months
Stimulus: hold infant in prone suspension, gently scratch or tap alongside (L or R) spine with finger from shoulder to buttocks
Response: lateral truck flexion and wrinkling of skin on stimulated side
Relevance: facilitates lateral truck movements necessary for trunk stabilization
Asymmetric Tonic Neck (ATNR)
Age onset: 37 weeks gestation
Integration age: 4-6 months
Stimulus: fully rotate head and hold for 5 sec
Response: extension of extremities on the face side, flexion on skull side
Relevance: promotes visual hand regard
Palmar Grasp
Age onset: 37 weeks gestation Integration age: 4-6 months Stimulus: place finger in infant's palm Response: finger flexion/reflexive grasp Relevance: increases tactile input of the palm
Tonic Labyrinthine - Supine
Age onset: > 37 weeks gestation Integration age: 6 months Stimulus: place infant in supine Response: increased extensor tone Relevance: facilitates total-body extensor tone
Tonic Labyrinthine - Prone
Age onset: > 37 weeks gestation Integration age: 6 months Stimulus: place infant in prone Response: increased flexor tone Relevance: facilitates total-body flexor tone
Labyrinthine/optical (head) righting
Age onset: birth - 2 months
Integration: persists
Stimulus: Hold infant suspended vertically and tilt slowly (about 45 degrees) to the side, forward, or backward
Response: Upright positioning of the head
Relevance: Orients head in space; maintains face vertical
Landau (Superman)
Age onset: 3-4 months
Integration: 12-24 months
Stimulus: Hold infant in horizontal prone position
Response: complete extension of head, trunk, and extremities
Relevance: Breaks up flexor dominance; facilitates prone extension
Symmetric Tonic Neck (STNR)
Age onset: 4-6 months
Integration: 8-12 months
Stimulus: Place infant in the crawling position and extend the head
Response: Flexion of hips and knees
Relevance: Breaks up total extensor posture; facilitates static quadruped position
Neck-righting (NOB)
Age onset: 4-6 months
Integration: 5 years
Stimulus: place infant in supine and fully turn head to one side
Response: log rolling of the entire body to maintain alignment with head
Relevance: maintains head/body alignment; initiates rolling (first ambulation effort)
Body righting (on body) (BOB)
Age onset: 4-6 months
Integration: 5 years
Stimulus: place infant in supine, flex one hip and knee toward the chest and hold briefy
Response: segmental rolling of the upper trunk to maintain alignment
Relevance: Facilitates trunk/spinal rotation