When Movement Is Blocked: Gravity, Genetics, and Trauma
Nov 01, 2025
Every child learns to move by entering a dialogue with gravity.
From their first breath to their first step, gravity is both the teacher and the resistance that builds organization.
When genetics, trauma, or medical intervention interrupts this process, the body loses its ability to negotiate force, rotation, and stability — the same principles that collapse in astronauts during microgravity exposure.
Gravity as the Missing Teacher
A healthy nervous system constantly compares how it moves within gravity:
• Rolling teaches rotation.
• Crawling teaches cross-lateral organization.
• Sitting and standing teach vertical balance.
When a child can’t perform these movements — because of muscle tone irregularities, brain injury, or premature birth — the brain never learns how to oppose gravity efficiently.
It begins building “workarounds” instead of a true organization.
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