Neural Exam - 3 month - head and trunk control

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This infant is almost 3 months old.
  • A baby this age when pulled to a sitting position should
    • be able to have only slight head lag
    • when sitting, the head should be upright but there may still be some wobbling of the head.
  • The back is still rounded, so the baby slumps forward.


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3 Months Neural Exam Movies: normal behaviour | cranial nerves | Tone - head and trunk control | upper extremity‎ | hand movements | lower extremity Positions - supine | prone | ventral suspension | vertical suspension | Reflexes - Deep tendon reflexes | Plantar reflex‎ | Root | Moro | Galant | Grasp | Asymmetric tonic neck‎ | Neural Exam Movies | Neonatal Diagnosis
Movie Source - Paul D. Larsen  
Movies from the PediNeuroLogic Exam website are used by permission of Paul D. Larsen, M.D., University of Nebraska Medical Center and Suzanne S. Stensaas, Ph.D., University of Utah School of Medicine. Additional materials were drawn from resources provided by Alejandro Stern, Stern Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Kathleen Digre, M.D., University of Utah; and Daniel Jacobson, M.D., Marshfield Clinic, Wisconsin. The movies are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
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Cite this page: Hill, M.A. (2024, March 19) Embryology Neural Exam - 3 month - head and trunk control. Retrieved from https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/Neural_Exam_-_3_month_-_head_and_trunk_control

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