@vitalbraininstitute: This is a 12 year old boy who came in for help with focus, posture, and bedwetting. His mom told me he's always moving, can't sit still through homework, and complains his back hurts when he sits at his desk. When I evaluated him, his Spinal Galant reflex was still active on both sides. The Spinal Galant is a reflex every baby is born with. When you stroke a newborn along the side of the spine, their hip swings toward that side. It is what helps a baby move through the birth canal and develop the lower back muscles. It should be fully integrated by 9 months of age. He is 12. When the Spinal Galant stays active, anything touching the lower back activates it. The waistband of his pants. The back of a chair. A seatbelt. Every brush against that area sends a signal to the nervous system that he needs to move. So he fidgets. He shifts. He gets up. He cannot sit still because his nervous system is being triggered by the chair he is sitting in. It is also tied to bladder control. A retained Spinal Galant disrupts the neurological pathways that allow a child to stay dry through the night. This is why so many kids with bedwetting also have hyperactivity and back pain that no one can explain. His parents had been told he was just a hyperactive kid and that he would grow out of the bedwetting. What he actually had was a primitive reflex that should have integrated when he was a baby and never did. We are now working through the integration process and watching his nervous system finally do what it was supposed to do 12 years ago. #primitivereflex #adhd #autism #spinalgalant #bedwetting

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