Retained developmental reflexes?!

[AnnabelleQ]

Hi, my daughter is 5 and saw an osteopath yesterday who said she has retained developmental reflexes. Does anyone have any experience of this?! Thanks. She also has spasticity in one leg and we are trying to find out about that, but I’m not sure it’s related.

It's not a recognised medical thing but some people believe in it. I'd suggest taking your daughter to a physio about her leg rather than wasting money on woo treatments.

Oh interesting @HotPenguin - I didn’t realise that, it sounded heavyweight. Yes we are seeing a physio, and soon seeing neurological paediatricians to try and diagnose the cause of the spasticity. Hoping it’s damage related cerebral palsy rather than something more progressive, even though there was no obvious cause of CP (not premature for example).

I read up about it as a couple of friends had it "diagnosed" when their children were younger.
They had to do this skin brushing thing.....

VERY scant evidence that it works - all anecdotal. So, yes basically a load of guff!

Osteopathy is a strange one, if you go with a problem with your back they give you a very standard conventional treatment pretty much the same as a physio would give, but they also have these very alternative ideas like cranial osteopathy and retained reflexes.

I googled it and it sounds like a genuine disorder/issue on there too, but again I’m not sure if that’s because some professionals believe it is - doesn’t mean it is. So hard as I’m trying to find answers about her spasticity, it can be very difficult to diagnose the cause of it (that’s definitely a ‘proper’ disorder of course as you can clearly see it as a symptom). And now I’m wondering if we could spend a lot seeing the osteopath and not necessarily gain anything?! He also did cranial osteopathy which again I’m not sure there is enough logical evidence for?