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Working with retained reflexes to make life easier.
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All are showing improvement in confidence, balance, speech and coordination. Some also show a reduction in phobic behaviours, allergies and depression; improved bowel and bladder control and improved performance in school.
What are reflexes?
Primitive Reflexes are automatic movements directed from the brainstem which require no cortical involvement. They are needed for survival and development in the womb and in the early months of life. One of their key functions is to establish, through repeated use, efficient neural pathways to and from the body and brain. If they fail to fulfil this task, the pathways carrying information to and from the brain may not achieve the efficiency required to allow learnt skills to develop from conscious to subconscious actions.
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f you or your child are not reaching their potential retained reflexes could be the key. Pauline Shannon at Helping Hand uses the INPP method of reflex integration and stimulation. This involves a simple daily exercise, done at home and taking no more than two minutes. These exercise programmes operate at an early developmental point to secure the foundations on which all other development is built. By revisiting some of the very early developmental stages, these programmes can improve neural efficiency, making life easier. Since reflex Integration works at such a fundamental level, it can help children and adults who have significantly different problems and/or diagnoses. Pauline is currently working with clients with Autism, Dyspraxia, Dyslexia, Asperger’s syndrome and developmental delay.