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Natural Remedies for Toe-Walking in Children

| Modified on Jan 15, 2025
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Toe-Walking Remedies
Posted by MamaRo (Canada ) on 01/07/2025

I recently used many of the remedies on the site to deal with some upper respiratory issues and found myself perusing remedies as I laid in bed resting. I was surprised to find information about stuttering which made me wonder about remedies for toewalking. Would you have any suggestions or insight into treatment for toewalking in children?

Toe-Walking Remedies
Posted by StevenIL (Illinois) on 01/15/2025

I think you should consider learning about primitive reflexes. Toe walking may be a symptom of a retained Tonic Labyrinthine Reflex (TLR). Heres some good information on it for you to check out.

https://brainbrighttherapy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Primitive-Reflex-Handout_symptoms.pdf
Search for toe walking in that document, it shows symptoms for the various reflexes in a simple to see list.

https://www.solvelearningdisabilities.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Primitive-Reflex-Free-Guide.pdf ***
This has all the information on the symptoms, exercises that are used to integrate reflexes.

https://bee-you.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/test_and_exercises_for_the_basic_reflexes.pdf
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Also check out the Babinski reflex. You can type toe walking in find for the document to find the information
https://www.neurodevelopmentalmovement.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Plantar-Reflex_Babinski-22.pdf
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They are usually developed at different stages of development and we ideally integrate them as we go, but there are many reasons people can go backwards, there are many adults with these unintegrated reflexes that cannot figure out why they do certain things such as startle easily, etc. Stress or being stuck in overwhelming / overstimulating circumstances being one of them. One of the files has exercises, just explore the whole concept and the activity / exercises that can be done to integrate them. Those are free resources that you can check out to see if any of the other descriptions match to figure out if any of it is relevant or not. Ive seen the simple exercises help out tremendously with adults, teens, and children. Its sprisingly common