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[Drjuliadc]

Mandy,

Anyone who has done work with primitive reflexes could confirm whether or not your children have persistent ones, not just a brain/balance center if you are thinking that they weren't correct.  Did they show you the exam so you could see the positive reflexes?  They can sometimes be subtle.

All of the primitive reflexes should be gone by the age of 1, so it would not be a good idea to wait.

$6000 might seem expensive, but the cost for braces in my area is $4000 and that is just teeth, not the brain. As I mentioned before, the concept is one that is commonly evaluated and treated in the PT and OT world.  Insurance will often cover PT and OT, but not if you don't have a diagnosis.  You can also look online for a chiropractic neurologist and just get the primitive reflexes remediated by them.  It would be more of a per visit fee than the whole payment at once.

The School for the Arts in Virginia Beach gives weekend seminars teaching parents how to remediate the reflexes.  Their course was only $200. It is a lovely city to visit.  I am pretty sure they will travel to give the course if you can collect enough parents.  They did their seminar at their church here.

As far as the question of how can your children have imbalances when you work on the "right brain" often, Doman and Shichida methods don't actually work on the right brain.  You wouldn't want to do that on the population as a whole anyway. Dyslexics, for example, often have right brains that are functioning higher than their left brains.  What Shichida and Doman methods are doing is strengthening the connection between the right and left brains.  I think it is unfortunate they they are considered Right Brain Training for that reason.

Chiropractic neurology is a subspecialty of chiropractic that is based largely on the work of one man, Dr. Ted Carrick.  PBS has done two documentaries on him.  He is known for getting people out of comas, some who have been in comas for years. Dr. Melillo, ;the developer of the Brain Balance Centers is one of the instructors for The Carrick Institute.  The methods used at Brain Balance centers are taught to many chiropractors who've taken the courses.  However, in order to create a franchise, Melillo has developed a system.  There is a lot of leverage in a system.

If you use any of the above methods to evaluate and remediate the primitive reflexes in your children, you will still have the "hemisphericity" to work on.  They are two separate issues. Hemisphericity is the imbalance between the right and left sides of the brain. A chiropractic neurologist could help you with that.

I will give you a little history to help you understand how your children could have problems when you have done a lot to avoid them. I have been a health nut my whole life but still got very sick from mercury toxicity in my late twenties and early thirties.  Some of my exposures were contact lens solution (had Thimerosal in it before 1990, the mercury containing preservative that is still used in vaccines), fish, vaccines and amalgam fillings.

Some of my patients have had toxic exposures from RhoGam, old house remodeling, sanding their deck and inhaling the dust, shooting guns, biting lead fishing weights, tatoo ink (has mercury, lead AND cadmium).

The neurotoxic sources I mentioned are only mercury and lead sources.  Heavy metals are more neurologically, immunologically and hormonally disruptive.than other toxins, but there are about 70,000 chemicals produced in this country and sold in this country and only about 4000 of them have ever been tested on human health.

Mercury is a known laboratory inducer of autoimmunity in rats. Autoimmunity can drive hemisphericity.  Hundreds of other chemicals are known inducers of autoimmunity.

Julia Trudeau, D.C., M.T.
Doctor of Chiropractic
Medical Technologist

[TeachingMyToddlers]

In short – it bypasses the long process of research, clinical studies, peer review, and replication and goes directly to a franchise.”

Infant literacy has never been peer reviewed or officially researched. Instead, it's just a bunch of private companies selling gimicky products on infomercials and online. What a shame...must be a scam, too.

[Mandy]

Julie, looking at your qualifications you are obviously primed to answer my question and first and foremost I want to thank you SO much for taking the time to explain the ins and outs to me. I am just tired of the research on this subject and now need to chose a way forward. I hear what you are saying about primitive reflexes but most chiropractors I shave spoken to, I spoke to 4, all say that the brain will naturally progress out of this state and there is no evidence as to why they still have them. I have checked according to Doman and the kids don't seem to have it. i.e. for Moro, if you stroke their face, they don't grimace or make mouth movements. But then I find myself second guessing myself the whole time as to not having the right background. I don't know what to say. I feel like I am more confused than ever.

The thing is that it is a lot of time to give up in the day, that they could be doing something else. I simply don't have an hour and a half a day for each kid! Any candid advice would so be appreciated!

[Sangeeta Sharma]

Looks very nice and informative book for kids which is very important for today's generation. Keep sharing.   

[Drjuliadc]

Mandy,

Sorry it took so long to reply.  A one and two year old do eat away at time in the most lovely way.

I gave you options as far as remediating reflexes since you apparently have neurotypical children.  Although 6000 may not be a lot compared to braces, it is still a lot.

An average chiropractor who has not taken any Carrick courses or other neurology courses would not be familiar with primitive reflexes.  I was not until taking the courses.

The reflexes will probably not go away by themselves so I do think it wise to handle them somehow.  The hemisphericity is probably not as pressing.  I would consider Bill Gates and Warren Buffet to probably have a lot of hemisphericity and it has served them well. They display extreme left brain dominance at least in personality. Interestingly, correcting a hemisphericity doesn't seem to make people lose the advantages it sometimes gives them.  If your children had a diagnosis I would say to handle the hemisphericity.  A very high functioning Aspergers sufferer might be the richest man in the universe, but most Asperger's sufferers have more disadvantages than advantages.

The Moro reflex is the startle reflex. Doing a "trust fall" type of activity is one way to correct it.  The suckling reflex is the one you described.  Most of the reflexes can be fixed by just doing the thing over and over again.  If a suckling reflex persists, just initiate the suckling reflex over and over again.

[TeachingMyToddlers]

http://schmoechiropractic.blogspot.jp/2011/06/primitive-reflex-remediation.html
This is a good overview. 

[TeachingMyToddlers]

Just a FYI, got this in my email today. I am still on their mailing list although I am not local anymore. Looks like they are beginning to travel elsewhere in the US.
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