Movement is a foundation of physiotherapy rehabilitation. A sub group of patients have very poor coordination and this interferes with traditional rehab. Other patients just seem to have tightness or increased tone in muscles that does not go way. This is frequently due to a retained primitive reflexes.

Primitive reflex inhibition is very gentle and easy to use strategies that can be applied right away in the clinic.

Primitive reflexes (PR) are brain stem-mediated, complex automatic movement patterns that commence in utero. If PR are present they will influence normal motor control and can interfere with normal rehabilitation. There are numerous causes of PR being present in neurologically intact adults (e.g. atypical birth history or developmental milestones especially walking and crawling; concussion). Numerous conditions are known to have retained primitive reflexes (e.g. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Developmental Coordination Disorder, dyslexia, addictions, scoliosis, diabetes, chronic low back pain, chronic shoulder pain, chronic whiplash associated disorders, post concussion syndrome, stroke, head injury).

The treatment of primitive reflexes can be used clinically in different ways to:

✅ Reduce individual muscle tone in chronically short muscles (e.g., hamstrings, gastrocnemius)
✅ Increase range of motion (e.g., upper cervical flexion, glenohumeral joint medial rotation)
✅ Improve general coordination (e.g., clumsiness, proprioception, postural stability)
✅ Target specific problems (e.g., toe walkers, some torticollis)
✅ Facilitate pelvic floor rehab (e.g., pelvic floor asymmetry)
✅ Improve motor imagery (e.g., midline and musculoskeletal body image deficits)
✅ Normalize muscle tone (e.g., stroke)

During this three day course we will cover the assessment and rehabilitation of PR in detail. Strategies for treatment in the clinic and home exercise will be covered. Specific examples will be used to show how primitive reflex inhibition can immediately improve movement and motor control.

The course material has other uses for neurology, concussion, pediatrics and in helping regular clients learn exercises more quickly.

There are no pre-requisites for this course

IMPORTANT: The course is taught in English with consecutive translation into Spanish. Notes in digital format.

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