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Deviation 1: Full-Term Natural Birth

Definition:
This category represents infants born full-term (around 37–42 weeks) through a natural delivery without significant medical complications. In these cases, movement development tends to follow expected timelines with minimal interference.

Key Features:

• Milestones are typically achieved within standard timeframes.
  Rolling, sitting, crawling, standing, and walking occur on schedule.

• Movement is organized by time-dictated development.
  The body matures under the influence of gravitational reflexes without interruption.

• Lower risk of neuromuscular complications.
  There may be minor variances, but these are generally within typical ranges.

• No major medical interventions at birth.
  The birth process itself helps "kickstart" torque, rotation, and breathing reflexes.

Assessment Goals:

• Confirm that primitive reflexes are present and maturing into gravitational reflex...

Your baby needs a safe environment, but they can’t produce ANY functional movement in a swing. This is a movement threat.

 Current Reality

• Apgar Score → designed only for delivery room communication (nurse,  doctor).

• “Wait and see” approach → parents wait for success, doctors wait for failure.

• Age adjustment → premature babies “look fine” on paper, delaying intervention.

•  Baby goes home = false sense of security.
    

 The Problem

• No real developmental assessment after birth.

• Early deviations in movement go unnoticed.

• Regression (illness, seizures, infections) is often missed until it’s too late.

• Parents only learn there’s a problem when labels appear: autism, CP, ADHD, etc.

Two Bone System & Weight Transfer Work

• Two-bone system → shift.
  Allows automatic weight transfer (like the micro-adjustments of an airplane’s wings correcting lift).

• One-bone system → lift.
  Forces the body to lift instead of shift, which disrupts smooth balance and coordination.

• Without shifting, weight transfer is blocked.

• Movements that should be automatic (standing balance, step initiation, transitions) become forced lifts.

• The body loses its “absolute horizon” — that natural lying referenc...

  Sleep Is a Learned Transition — Not a Switch

• Midline access

• Skeletal buoyancy

• Breath regulation

• Visual disengagement

• Autonomic decompression

 What Swaddling Does

• It restricts limb movement

• Eliminates midline exploration

• Suppresses rotational feedback

• Prevents the baby from floating through their own transitions

This is such a crucial observation identifying the head–spine lock that often defines the severity of cerebral palsy. Let me lay it out in the same structured way as before, so it’s crystal clear for parents, therapists, or even doctors who don’t always see it this way:

 The Atlas and CP Severity

• In typical development, the atlas (C1) allows the head and spine to move independently:

• We can keep the head level while the spine rotates.

• Or keep the spine stable while moving the head.

• In cerebral palsy, especially moderate to severe, the atlas does not separate functionally from the spine.

• This means the head and spine move as one rigid block.

 Consequences of Head–Spine Lock

• Vision:

• Can’t keep gaze steady while moving trunk.

• Every shift of the spine alters eye position → constant visual instability.

• Tilt Point / Balance:

• With the head–spine lock...

 Why Fall Therapy Doesn't Teach Function

• Rotation through the spine

• Midline anchoring through vision and breath

• Weight transfer

• Skeletal buoyancy

• Functional gravitational response

When your child is in a session with me, we’re not just “strengthening muscles” or “working on sitting.”

We’re teaching their body how to feel gravity the right way.

• Less bracing, more balance

• Sitting without needing to prop or strain

• Natural transitions—rolling, scooting, even crawling—without being taught step-by-step

• A stronger sense of vertical stability, from the inside out

“We don’t force movement. We give the body enough safety to rediscover it.”

 Sports Medicine's Blind Spot: Midline Disintegration = Functional Loss

• Muscle groups (e.g., quads, hamstrings)

• Joints (e.g., ACL, shoulder, spine)

• Linear rehab protocols (range of motion, strength, flexibility)

 Common Failures Due to Midline Collapse

 ACL Injuries

• Rehab focuses on quad/hamstring ratios and knee tracking

• But the real breakdown is the inability to reorganize the midline torque

• They regain symmetry, but lose rotational stability — and reinjure

 Rotator Cuff / Shoulder Instability

• Surgery restores the anatomical connection

• Rehab ignores scapular-to-spine midline articulation

• Athlete can't re...

Doing Movement Lesson™ for yourself comes with your workout, as well as working on yourself. Now that I have the mathematical proof, I want to break down what I'm doing. So I start the exercise with a typical linear muscle-based cable pull. Then I'm adding midline crossing and rotational midlines. Notice the increased engagement in the workout session.

Click https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1ZD345h4WW/? to watch the video.

Core Metrics Turner AI Score From the Video:

• RME: Rotational Midline Engagement

• CRI: Collapse Risk Index (visible postural drops in linear mode)

• BPI: Bounce Preservation (engagement of recoil timing)

• ORI: Overhead Reach Index if shoulder engagement is present

• FGRD: Functional Gravity Rate Differential between segments

Initial Observations You're Demonstrating:

• Linear movement creates isolated effort (arms + partial trunk only)

• Midline activation increases tr...