Reflexes, Reactions, Motor Development, Setting Stage, and Other Flashcards
What are the three types of reflexes?
- primitive (neonatal) reflexes
- attitudinal reflexes
- automatic postural reactions
What are primitive (neonatal) reflexes?
involuntary stereotypic movement patterns elicited in a newborn via sensation or sensory stimulus
What are the primitive reflexes?
- sucking
- rooting
- galant’s response
- moro’s
- palmar grasp
- plantar grasp
- neonatal positive support (LE)
- spontaneous walking/stepping
What is the sucking reflex?
- stimulus: place finger or nipple into infant’s mouth
- response: infant rhythmical sucking movements
When is the onset and integration of the sucking reflex?
- onset: 28 weeks gestation
- integration: 2-5 months
What is the infant’s position in the sucking reflex?
supine with head midline
What is the rooting reflex?
stimulus: stroke of skin at corner of mouth moving toward cheek, upper lip and lower lip, in turn
response: directed head toward stimulated side
What are the onset and integration time points of rooting reflex?
onset: 28 weeks gestation
integration: 3 months
What is the infant position during the rooting reflex?
supine with head midline
What is galant’s response reflex?
- trunk incurvation
stimulus: gently stimulate along a paravertebral line 3 cm from midline and from shoulder to buttocks, one side at a time
response: lateral flexion to stimulated side
What is the onset and integration periods of galant’s response?
onset: 28-32 weeks gestation
integration: 2 months (may persist)
What is the infant position of galant’s response?
prone in neutral alignment
What is the moro reflex?
stimulus: support infant head and shoulders with hand, allow head to drop back 20-30 degrees with respect to trunk, stretching neck muscles
response: abduction of upper extremities with extension of elbows, wrists and fingers, followed by subsequent adduction of arms at shoulders and flexion at elbows
What is the onset and integration period of moro reflex?
onset: 28 weeks gestation
integration: 4-6 months
What is the position of moro reflex?
supine with head midline
What is the palmar grasp reflex?
stimulus: place index finger of examiner into hand of infant from ulnar side, gently press into palmar surface
response: infant’s finger flex around examiner’s finger
What is the onset and integration period of the palmar grasp?
onset: birth to 2 months
integration: 4-6 months with purposeful reach/grasp
What is the position of the palmar grasp?
supine with head in midline and hands free
What is the plantar grass reflex?
stimulus: firm pressure against plantar surface on infant’s foot over metatarsal heads
response: plantar flexion of all toes
What is the onset and integration periods of plantar grasp?
onset: 28 weeks gestation
integration: 9 months
What is the infant position in plantar grasp?
supine with head in midline, legs relaxed
What is the neonatal positive support reflex?
stimulus: allow feet to make contact with table or other flat surface
response: simultaneous contraction of flexors and extensors so as to bear weight on lower extremities
- may only minimal body weight
- partial flexion of hips and knees
What is the onset and integration of neonatal positive support?
onset: 35 weeks gestation
integration: 1-2 months
What is the position of neonatal positive support?
support infant in vertical position with examiner’s hands under the arms and around the chest
What is the spontaneous walking/stepping reflex?
stimulus: support child upright feet touching table, incline forward, gently move forward to accompany stepping
response: child will make alternating stepping movements
What is the onset and integration of spontaneous walking/stepping?
onset: around birth
integration: 2 months
What is the position of spontaneous walking/stepping?
support infant in vertical position with examiner’s hands under arms and around chest
What is an attitudinal reflex?
- stimulus is head and neck position
What are the two attitudinal reflexes?
- asymmetrical tonic neck reflex (ATNR)
- symmetrical tonic neck reflex (STNR)
What is ATNR?
stimulus: have child actively turn head following object, or passively turn child’s head (jaw over shoulder)
response: arm and leg on face side extend, arm and leg on skull side flex (fencer position)
What is the onset and integration period of ATNR?
onset: birth to 2 months
integration: 4-6 months
What is infant position in ATNR?
position child supine with head midline
What is STNR?
stimulus: examiner passively flexes then extends child’s head and neck
response:
a. head and neck flexion produces flexion of UEs, extension of LEs
b. head and neck extension produces extension of UEs, flexion of LEs
What is the onset and integration period of STNR?
onset: 4-6 months
integration: 8-12 months
What is the infant position of STNR?
place child in vertical position supported by trunk, over your knee
What is an automatic postural reflex?
- provide foundation for posture, balance, locomotion, and prehension
- reactions appear during infancy and remain throughout life
- occur in response to changes in body’s orientation and pattern of weight distribution in BOS
What are the 3 categories of automatic postural reactions?
- protective
- righting reactions (head and trunk)
- equilibrium
What is a protective reaction?
extremities move out to catch person, due to fast or large movement of COG
What is head and trunk righting?
- produce alignment of body with environment or alignment in space
- keep head and trunk in line with each other
- uses 3 systems:
a. visual
b. vestibular
c. somatosensory
What is an equilibrium reaction?
- response to slow shift in COG
- orderly sequence: prone > sitting > quadruped > standing
- lags behind attainment of movement
- includes lateral righting and rotation