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Reflexes Flashcards

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Stimulus: Stroke the corner of the mouth, upper lip, and lower lip

Response: Movement of the tongue, mouth, and or head during the stimulus

Significance: Helps baby locate feeding source to begin feeding

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Rooting

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Rooting Onset age & Integration Age

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Onset age: 28 weeks

Integration Age: 3 months

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Stimulus: Place examiner’s index finger inside infant’s mouth with head in midline

Response: Strong, rhythmical sucking

Significance: Facilitates nutritive sucking for the ingestion of liquid

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Suck-Swallow

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Suck-Swallow Onset age & Integration age

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Onset age: 28 weeks

Integration age: 2- 5 months

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Stimulus: Grasp infants forearms and pull up to sit

Response: Complete reflex of upper extremities

Significance: Promotes momentary grasp to enable to child to hold onto mother when being pulled

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Traction

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Traction Onset age and Integration age

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Onset age: 28 weeks

Integration age: 2-5 months

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Stimulus: Rapidly drop infants head backwards

Response: First phase - arm extension/abduction, hand grasp
Second phase - arm flexion/adduction

Significance: Protective response to stress , helps develop extensor tone, during a period when flexor tone is dominant

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Moro

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Moro Onset age & Integration Age

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Onset age: 28 weeks

Integration age: 4-6 months

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Stimulus: Apply pressure with thumb on infant’s ball of foot

Response: Toe flexion

Significance: increase input to sole of foot, integration is associated with readiness for independent gait

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Plantar Grasp

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Plantar Grasp Onset age & Integration age

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Onset age: 28 weeks

Integration age: 9 months

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Stimulus: Hold infant in prone suspension, gently tap or scratch along side spine with fingers, from should to buttocks

Response: Lateral trunk flexion and wrinkling of the skin on stimulated side

Significance: Enhances trunk stabilization by facilitating lateral trunk movement

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Galent

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Galent Onset age & Integration age

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Onset age: 32 weeks

Integration age: 2 months

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Stimulus: Fully rotate infants head and hold for 5 secs

Response: Extension of extremities on face side, flexion of extremities on skull side

Significance: Promotes visual attention to UE; decreases incidence of rolling

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Asymmetric Tonic Neck

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Asymmetric Tonic Neck Onset age & Integration age

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Onset age: 37 weeks

Integration age: 4-6 months

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Stimulus: Place a finger in infant’s palm

Response: Finger flexion, reflexive grasp

Significance: Increase palmer tactile input; prepares muscles for voluntary grasp

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Palmer Grasp

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Palmer Grasp Onset age & Integration age

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Onset age: 37 weeks

Integration age: 4-6 months

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Stimulus: Place infant in supine

Response: Increase extensor tone

Significance: Facilitates full body extensor tone, allows posture to adapt to that of the head

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Tonic labyrinthine-supine

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Tonic labyrinthine-supine Onset age & Integration age

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Onset age: >37 weeks

Integration age: 6 months

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Stimulus: Place infant in prone

Response: Increase flexor tone

Significance: Facilitates full body flexor tone, allows posture to adapt to that of the head

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Tonic labyrinthine-prone

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Tonic labyrinthine-prone Onset age & Integration age

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Onset age: >37 weeks

Integration age: 6 months

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Stimulus: Hold infant in horizontal prone suspension

Response: Completed extension of head, trunk and extremities

Significance: Regulates tone, promotes prone extension to manage flexor tone

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Landau

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Landau Onset age & Integration age

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Onset age: 3-4 months

Integration age: 12-24 months

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Stimulus: Place infant in the crawling position and extend the head

Response: Flexion of the hips and knees

Significance: Facilitates quadruped position in preparation for crawling, breaks up total body extension

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Symmetric tonic neck

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Symmetric tonic neck Onset age & Integration age

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Onset age: 4-6 months

Integration age: 8-12 months

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Stimulus: Place infant in supine and fully turn head to one side

Response: Log rolling of the entire body to maintain alignment with the head

Significance: Facilitates rolling ; maintains body orientation in response to cervical position chances

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Neck Righting (On body) (NOB)

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Neck Righting (On body) (NOB) Onset age & Integration age

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Onset age: 4-6 months

Integration age: 5 years

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Stimulus: Place infant in supine, flex one hip and knee toward the chest and hold briefly

Response: Segmental rolling of the upper trunk to maintain alignment

Significance: Promotes trunk and spinal rotation to facilitate sitting and quadruped positions

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Body righting (on body) (BOB)

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Body righting (on body) (BOB) Onset age & Integration age

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Onset age: 4-6 months

Integration age: 5 years

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Stimulus: Hold infant suspended vertically and tilt slowly (about 45 degrees) to the side, forward, or backward

Response: Upright positioning of the head

Significance: Basis for head management and postural stability; orients head in space vertically

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Labyrinthine/optical (head) righting

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Labyrinthine/optical (head) righting Onset age

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Onset age: birth - 2 months

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(Persist throughout life)

Stimulus: Rapidly lower infant toward supporting surface while suspended vertically

Response: Extension of the LE

Significance: Prepares LE for surface contact (i.e. standing); breaks a fall

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Downward parachute (protective extension downward)

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Downward parachute (protective extension downward) Onset age

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Onset age: 4 months

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(Persist throughout life)

Stimulus: Suddenly tip infant forward toward supporting surface while vertically suspended

Response: Sudden extensions of the UE , hand opening, and neck extension

Significance: Places UE in anticipation of surface contact to break a fall; supports prop sitting

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Forward parachute (protective extension forward)

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Forward parachute (protective extension forward) Onset age

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Onset age: 6-9 months

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(Persist throughout life)

Stimulus: Quickly but firmly tip infant off-balance to the side while in the sitting position

Response: Arm extension and abduction to the side

Significance: Unilaterally supports body for us of opposite arm; prevents falls

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Sideward parachute (protective extension sideward)

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Sideward parachute (protective extension sideward) Onset age

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Onset age: 7 months

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(Persist throughout life)

Stimulus: Quickly but firmly tip infant off-balance backward

Response: Backward arm extension or arm extension to one side spinal rotation

Significance: Protects from backwards falls

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Backward parachute (protective extension backward)

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Backward parachute (protective extension backward) Onset age

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Onset age: 9-10 months

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(Persist throughout life)

Stimulus: After positioning infant in prone, slowly raise one side of the supporting surface

Response: Curving of the spine toward the raised side (opposite to the pull of gravity); abduction/extension of arms and legs

Significance: Facilitates posture adjustments to maintain center of gravity

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Prone tilting

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Prone tilting Onset age

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Onset age: 5 months

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(Persist throughout life)

Stimulus: After positioning infant in supine or sitting, slowly raise one side of the supporting surface

Response: Curving of the spine toward the raised side (opposite to the pull of gravity); abduction/extension of arms and legs

Significance: Facilitates postural adjustments to maintain center of gravity; promotes sitting balance

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Supine tilting and sitting tilting

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Supine tilting and sitting tilting

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Onset age: 7-8 months

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(Persist throughout life)

Stimulus: After positioning infant on all fours, slowly raise one side of the supporting surface

Response: Curving of the spine toward the raised side (opposite to the pull of gravity); abduction/extension of arms and legs

Significance: Facilitates postural adjustments to maintain center of gravity and preserve positioning in quadruped

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Quadruped Tilting

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Quadruped Tilting Onset age

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Onset age: 9-12 months

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(Persist throughout life)

Stimulus: After positioning infant in standing, slowly raise one side of the supporting surface

Response: Curving of the spine toward the raised side (opposite to the pull of gravity); abduction/extension of arms and legs

Significance: Facilitates postural adjustments to maintain center of gravity and balance during standing and walking

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Standing tilting

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Standing tilting Onset age

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Onset age: 12-21 months

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