Practice for Movement
Asymmetrical Tonic Neck Reflex
The movement:
When the head turns to one side, the arms and legs extend on the same side while the arms and legs on the opposite side bend. This reflex promotes the coordination of arm / hand movement and visual stimuli. The muscles are exercised alternately on the right or left side. The function of the Asymmetrical Tonic Neck Reflex is to make a differentiation in the horizontal plane.
Symptoms of an uninhibited Asymmetric Tonic Neck Reflex:
- Balance disorders
- Homolateral movements during exercise and walking
- Wooden motor skills
- Having trouble crossing the midline that divides your body in a left and a right half, that is, having trouble with all cross movements.
- Difficulty with reading and writing. Your eyes have trouble following movements around the center line
- Poor handwriting and expression skills on paper
- Clumsiness
- Problems with visual perception, delayed processing of visual stimuli
- Problems with the representation of symmetrical figures
- No spatial awareness. Visual blackouts, for example in traffic
- Back and neck pain / problems
- To think in black and white
- Tendency to polarize, both mentally and emotionally. Switching from a very intellectual and rational perspective to an emotional attitude
- Alternate use of left and right hand for the same task
- No crawling as a baby
- During manual labor, writing and reading, you sit on one leg or you hook one leg behind the chair leg to prevent stretching
- You lean your head on an arm while reading and writing. Aversion to reading and / or activities that involve coordination and balance
- Going up and down the stairs step by step. Freezing in a body posture
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