Birth Trauma and Cranial Developments

Birth Trauma can be a variety of things:

• Intubation
• Feeding Tube (NG or NJ Tube)
• NICU Time
• and more

When a child experiences a birth trauma that interrupts their cranial movements, developmental delays can occur. 

How? 

Because these types of birth trauma can cause two types of jams in the cranial system. 

First, is an ATLAS JAM

Your child may be struggling with things like:

• Head control
• Eating
• Swallowing
• Hates tummy time
• Not rolling over

The head needs to be able to counter all the movements in the spine, and when there is an atlas jam, it can't; therefore key transitional movements patterns can not occur. 

Why Are Transitional Movement Patterns Important?

Transitional Movement Patterns are what should happen in a person's body between each of the "baby milestones" that you know.

These are not all of the established milestones given by the CDC, but here are just a few:

• Head lift
• Tummy time
• Head control
• Rolling over
• ...