Reflexes

Blink

Rooting

Sucking

How Elicited
>shining a strong
light such as a
flashlight
or
otoscope light on
an eye
>sudden
movement
towards the eye
Cheek is brushed
or stroke near the
corner
of
the
mouth

Lips are touched

Findings
Has
movement
towards eye

The child turns in

the
direction
where the cheek is
stroke

If the cheek is Normal

brushed or stroked
near the corner of
the mouth, the
child will turn the
head
in
that
direction.
The child makes a When childs lips Normal
sucking motion.
are touched, the
child makes a
sucking motion.

Swallowing

Food reaches the Food

was
posterior position automatically
of the tongue
swallowed

Extrusion

A substance is
placed on the
anterior position
of the tongue

Palmar Grasp

Step
place

An
object
placed on
childs palm

is
the

(walk)-in- Held in vertical

position with their
feet touching a
hard surface

Norms
Interpretation
Protects the eye Normal
from any object by
rapid eye closure

The child extruded

the substance that
was placed on the
anterior position
of the tongue.

Diminishes at 6
mos. Of age.
Food that reaches Normal
the
posterior
position of the
tongue
is
automatically
swallowed
Extrudes
any Normal
substance that is
placed on the
anterior position
of the tongue

Disappears at 4
mos. Of age
The child was able Grasps an object Normal
to grasp the object placed in the palm
given to him.
by closing their fi
ngers on it.
The was able to A child who is Normal
make few quick, held in vertical
alternating steps
position with their
feet touching a
hard surface will
take a few quick,
alternating steps
Disappears at 3

Plantar Grasp

Object touches the

sole of a childs
foot at the base of
the toes

Tonic
Newborn lie on
neck/Boxer/Fencing their backs
The arm and the
leg on the side
toward which the
head turns extend
and the opposite
arm
and
leg
contract
Moro/Startle

Startling with a
loud noise or by
jarring the bassinet

Babinski

Side of the sole of

the foot is stroke
in an inverse J
curve from the
heel upward
Pressure is applied
to the sole of the
feet
of
the
newborn in a lying
position
One leg of the
newborn
lying
supine is extended
and the sole of the
foot is irrititated
by being rubbed
with a sharp object
such as thumbnail
Lie in a prone
position and are
touched along the
par vertebral area

Magnet

Crossed Extension

Trunk Incurvation

mos. Of age
The childs toes Toes grasp in the Normal
grasp in the same same manner as
manner as the the fingers do
fingers do
Disappears at 8-9
mos. of age
May be present
during sleeps
The child changed If you turn head to Normal
the extension and the opposite side,
contractions of the he/she will often
legs and arms
changed
the
extension
and
contraction of legs
and
arms
accordingly
Disappears
between 2nd and 3rd
mos. Of life
The child was Stimulates
the Normal
startled by the action of someone
noise that was trying to ward off
made
an attacker, then
covering up to
protect himself
The child was able Fans toes
Normal
to fun his toes
Remains positive
(toes fan) until at
least 6 mos.
The child pushed Pushes
back Normal
back against the against
the
pressure
pressure
The child raised Raises other leg Normal
his other leg and and extends it as if
extends it
trying to push
away the hand
irritating the first
leg
The child flexed
his trunk and
swang his pelvis
towards the touch

Flexes his trunk Normal

and swang his
pelvis towards the
touch

Landau

Deep Tendon

by
probing
a
finger
Held in a prone
position with a
hand underneath
supporting
the
trunk
Tapping
the
patellar tendon of
the finger(patellar
reflex)

The child was able Should

to demonstrate a demonstrate
muscle tone
muscle tone

Normal
a

Childs lower leg Lower leg moves Normal

moves perceptibly perceptibly if the
infant has an intact
The
childs reflex
tendons contracted
Place the thumb of
Feel the tendon
your left hand on
contract
the tendon of the
biceps muscle on
the inner surface
of the elbow. Tap
the thumb as it
rests
on
the
tendon(biceps
reflex)