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TWGPC 014 Spinal Galant
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It's your Thursday pocket cast from Cheri Dotterer at The Writing Glitch.
Today, we will continue to talk about those spinal reflexes that we started talking about on Monday.
Today, I will talk about the Spinal Galant and the difference between the Spinal Pereze and the Spinal Galant impacts the lumbar spine.
It's the same idea: if you take your finger from the middle of your thoracic spine, swipe it down alongside your lumbar, and the kid is bending to that side, you do it to the other side, and they bend toward that side.
That is an indication that the spinal glunt might be something that is impacting their writing skills.
And this would be when you either touch the smaller of their back or their chair is touching the small of their back, and they pull away.
Think about this.
You have kids who want to hug one another, and one wraps around the back and touches the smell, the back, and you've got a kid going.
"I don't like that."
"I don't like hugs" might be an issue.
It could also happen with the Spinal Pereze if they're touching their thoracic spine.
The other thing is if you do like a circle where you're interlocking your arms from one person to the other, naturally, your hand goes at the small of the back, and then you've got a kid going.
They don't know that it's a reflex.
They don't know that it is just something that is not normal because it's normal for them not to like somebody touching their back again many times.
This is something that happens with ac section because this is the reflex that allows the kids to kick their feet to push themselves down the vaginal canal.
If we don't have that vaginal canal, moving those legs back and forth continuously to help push them out, they will have this reflex dormant in their background.
And we need to work on exercises to help move that.
One of the exercises that help is marching, making those hips have that alternating movement.
And it helps both reflexes, the Spinal Pereze and the Spinal Galant.
Anything you can do to move those hips back and forth, back and forth, will help these kids with those issues.
Another exercise that will help these kids is called the Star.
They lay on the floor, arms spread, and you want to touch them with extended arms and legs, their fingertips to their toes, left arm, right foot, right arm, and left foot.
The star is coming up and closing on from one side to make it diagonal with the body and then the other way.
Again, kids are having trouble sitting in their seat, paying attention, not winning, and not wanting kids or other people touching their backs.
Think about these. Send the kid for an ot evaluation.
In the meantime, look for more information about these primitive reflexes in an upcoming master class.
This fall, more information is coming by now. We might have information in the show notes.
But if the information is not there, keep looking because it'll be coming soon.
Talk to you later. Thanks. This is Cheri from The Writing Glitch. This is your Thursday Pocket Cast.
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