What are Retained Primitive Reflexes (Retained Neonatal Reflexes)?
Primitive Reflexes are there from birth, hardwired into our brain for our survival. However as our nervous system develops, and other areas of the brain begin to come online, these reflexes should ideally go away. However this is not always the case, and subsequently our brain biochemistry remains unbalanced. For children this can result in symptoms such as mood swings, anxiety, learning difficulties, co-ordination problems or bedwetting, just to name a few. These reflexes can also be addressed in adults who also experience anxiety and unexplained moodiness. The correction of these reflexes is very gentle, most children dont even notice that it’s happening. It mainly involves gentle cranial corrections done while the child is laying down, or even in Mum or Dad’s arms. So how do we end up with these reflexes? Why didn’t they become a part of our nervous system when they were supposed to? The answer is usually an untimely stress or trauma on a developing body – whether that stress be phy
