Wiki article on retained reflexes - confused!

[mrsbaffled]

I am reading up about retained reflexes, and came across this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_reflexes
In the bit about Spinal Galant reflex it says:
"If the reflex persists past six months of age, it is a sign of pathology." What does it mean, what pathology??

DS(7) had a strong retained spinal galant reflex, but it has gone now (completely) due to RRT as part of his Vision Therapy. How does that fit with the article?!

Also - a side issue - the behaviour optometrist is doing some sensory integration exercises with him. What do these hope to achieve? Will it help with his sensitivity to noise and touch?

Thanks x

Hi,
We spent a number of years integrating my DS's primitive (infant) reflexes. We were helped enormously by the BIRD charity in Chester. They are a fantastic organisation and are experts in this area
www.b-i-r-d.org.uk/

best wishes

mrsbaffled
fist the links
Primitive reflexes
BIRD
Wikipedia is improving the quality of the articles as the number of researchers, and consultants have started to become interested in the articles related to their specific areas of interest, especially health related research professionals. So they can use language and terminology they use everyday, but which is not so familiar to lay people like you and me. such the leading UK researcher who recently edited the Auditory processing disorder article

I have a PubMed Primitive Reflexes research paper collection not very extensive but just to provide me with some idea of the issues. If you select a research paper you will usually get a list of related papers on the right hand side of the screen, or you could start your own PubMed search say "Spinal Galant reflex" in the PubMed search engine