M1 L3: Assessment Gross Motor 0-6 years Flashcards
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What are the 6 motor stages in the first 12 months of life?
- Head (sensory & oral) orienting
- Head midline, Sensory orienting, Feeding, Communication
- Floor posture & movement
- Supine, Prone, Side lie, Rolling, Reach, Hands-to-Feet
- Moving up against gravity
- Sit, Sit transitions, Vault
- Quadruped
- Pivot, Commando, Creep, 4 point, Crawl
- Kneel
- Low kneel, High kneel, Pull to stand, Half kneel
- Stance
- Stand at support, Cruise, Transitions, Stand alone
What are the 6 motor stages in the first to fifth years (1-5 years) of life?
- Gait
- Step forward, Walk (6+ steps)
- Propulsion
- Run, jump
- Single leg stance
- Lift 1 foot, Kick, Step up, Stairs up & down, Hop
- Complex gait
- Gallop, Skip, Side skip
- Complex propulsion
- Jump off / over, Jump rope, Jump repetitions
- Ball skills
- Throw, catch, bounce
What is Praxis?
- Planned series of movements to solve a probleme
- A new/novel act- not already learned
(Since children are constantly learning and acquiring skills)
What is a Skill?
Learned ability to bring about pre-determined results with maximum certainty and minimum outlay of time and effort (Eg. elite sports)
What is the development before birth?

What are 4 types of motor movements that begin in utero?
- Kicking, pushing
- Rolling
- Walking
- Fine motor
- (e.g. sucking thumb)
What are the 5 types of sensory movements that begin in utero?
- Pushing (proprioception)
- Mum walking, baby rolling (vestibular)
- Touch self (tactile)
- Baby moving (proprioception)
- Sounds through uterus wall (auditory)
What is the benefit of being in the uterus until full term?
Small constrained environment
- Small range of movement
- Pushing against “constraints”
- Proprioceptive feedback (from uterine wall)
What is the implications of being born pre-mature?
- More nociceptive input (from tubes)
- Less proprioceptive feedback
- For highly premies –> can keep correcting age until school age
What happens when a baby is pre-mature? How does this affect physio?
Premature babies have a “corrected age” where the age starts once they are full term (even while in NICU)
What is the posture of a newborn?
- Term infant (37-40 weeks)
- Flexion of trunk & limbs

What are the 4 characteristics of a newborn’s pattern of movement in the first 2 months?
- general mid‐range limb movement
- some reproducible patterns ofposture / movement
- elicited in response to specific positions / stimuli
- functional: suck, swallow, protective reflexes

What are the 4 newborn responses to sensation?
- ‘Galant’ or ‘trunk incurvation’ response
- ‘Moro’ response
- Primary standing and Primary stepping/walking
- Tonic Labyrinthine Response (TLR)
What is the period of observation in the “Galant” or “trunk” incurvation response?
- Appears at birth (term 37-40w)
- Continues, but weakens with time

What is the stimulus of the “galant” or “trunk incurvation” response?
Tactile – stroking over direct skin/muscle
- Response to non-nociceptive stimuli

What is the response of the “galant” or “trunk incurvation” response?
Underlying muscle contracts

What muscles does the “galant” or “trunk incurvation” response occur?
This type of response is present in many muscles around the body

What are the 3 stimulus of the “Moro” response?
- Vestibular – sudden backward movement of the head
- Some proprioception - extension of the neck
- Some vision - if eyes open / optic flow

What are the 2 responses of the “Moro” response?
- Full arm extension (arms out)- Stiffens
- Then full arm flexion (arms in)
Why do babies have the “Moro” response?
- Head VS body in baby –> 25% of body is head
- Very big compared to the rest of body
- Needs to protect and support the head

What is the implication of swaddling a baby with its hands beside its body?
Swaddle baby with hands on side –> inhibit startle reflex
What is the 2 characteristics of the period of observation for the “Moro” response?
- Appears 0-3w (in term infants, i.e. 37-40 weeks)
- Integrates from 3m+

What are the 2 stimuli for “Primary standing and stepping/walking”?
- Proprioception – weight bearing (for stand)
- Some vestibular and visual – forward lean (for step)

What are the 2 responses of “Primary standing and stepping/walking”?
- Standing - weight bearing through legs
- Stepping - LL flexion, then extension / step
























































