01/08/2025
📌 Why Check Your Child’s Primitive Reflexes?
Have you noticed your child struggles with balance, posture, handwritting or focus? It could be more than 'just a phase'. Retained primitive reflexes can impact your child’s development well beyond the baby stage.
🧠 Primitive reflexes are automatic movements that babies are born with—think rooting, sucking, or the startle reflex. These are essential for survival and development in early life, but they should fade as your child grows.
🔄 When these reflexes don’t integrate properly, they can affect posture, coordination, behaviour, focus, and learning.
👶 From delayed milestones to clumsiness, fidgeting, emotional regulation issues or even trouble sitting still—retained reflexes might be the missing piece of the puzzle.
🌿 As chiropractors, we’re trained to assess these reflexes and help support the nervous system through gentle, non-invasive care and exercisea. Want to know more? Book in with us for a paediatric reflex check today 👶💫