Neural Exam - Newborn tone - resting posture

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Newborn-normal-behaviour.jpg</wikiflv> This 5-day-old infant is in the alert, quiet state.
  • For a term newborn the resting posture is flexion of the extremities with the extremities closely adducted to the trunk.
  • After the first few days of life, the extremities are still predominantly in the flexed position but they are not as tightly adducted as they are in the first 48 hours of life.


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Cite this page: Hill, M.A. (2024, March 29) Embryology Neural Exam - Newborn tone - resting posture. Retrieved from https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/Neural_Exam_-_Newborn_tone_-_resting_posture

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