Neural Exam - 3 month - prone position

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<html5media height="300" width="320">File:03mo 08.mp4</html5media> This infant is almost 3 months old.
  • In the prone position, the baby is now able to bring his head up and look forward with the head being 45 to 90 degrees off the mat.
  • Weight is borne on the forearms.
  • When the head and chest are well off the mat, the baby is ready to start to roll from the prone to the supine position.
  • Rolling front to back usually occurs at 3 to 5 months of age.
  • Rolling over too early can be due to excessive extensor tone.


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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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