{"id":397,"date":"2025-01-26T11:12:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T11:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/headoverhills.com.au\/?page_id=397"},"modified":"2025-09-05T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T11:56:00","slug":"reflex-integration","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/headoverhills.com.au\/index.php\/reflex-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflex Integration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>\n\t\t\tWhat are Primitive Reflexes?\t<\/h2>\n\t<p>Our bodies are full of reflexes &#8211; automatic movements our body makes without our conscious control. The earliest reflexes that develop in our bodies are called Primitive Reflexes which begin emerging at 5 weeks&#8217; gestation.<\/p>\n<p>They are essential for a foetus&#8217; survival and work to develop our neurology, facilitate the birth process, develop our stress response, develop our movement repertoire and &#8216;wire-up&#8217; the brain fully from brain stem to prefrontal cortex.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/headoverhills.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Untitled-design-16.png\" alt=\"Untitled design (16)\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"788\" width=\"940\" title=\"Untitled design (16)\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n<h2>\n\t\t\tThe Reflex Journey\t<\/h2>\n\t<p>Up to 12 months of age, primitive reflexes emerge, develop and perform their set function for the overall developmental process.<\/p>\n<p>They are then mostly integrated or &#8220;switched off&#8221; to lie dormant in the brain stem. Regularly however, these primitive reflexes are actually retained and remain active in the body.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, even if primitive reflexes have integrated in childhood, they reactivate as a survival response to trauma or neurological conditions such as Dementia and Parkinson&#8217;s Disease.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/headoverhills.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Untitled-design-19.png\" alt=\"Untitled design (19)\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"788\" width=\"940\" title=\"Untitled design (19)\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<h2>Common Challenges of Retained Reflexes<\/h2>\n\t<ul>\n<li>Attention, focus and concentration<\/li>\n<li>Bed wetting<\/li>\n<li>Hyperactivity, impulsivity<\/li>\n<li>Learning difficulties<\/li>\n<li>Feeling &#8216;stuck&#8217;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t<ul>\n<li>Co-ordination and movement difficulties<\/li>\n<li>Low endurance<\/li>\n<li>Emotional regulation, anxiety, depression, fearfulness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t<ul>\n<li>Sensory processing challenges<\/li>\n<li>Chronic tension, aches and pains<\/li>\n<li>Inability to regulate stress response<\/li>\n<li>Trauma recovery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t<ul>\n<li>Poor posture, low tone<\/li>\n<li>Visual or auditory difficulties<\/li>\n<li>Language difficulties<\/li>\n<li>Handwriting difficulties<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are Primitive Reflexes? 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