{"id":7771,"date":"2025-02-24T18:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T18:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/?p=7771"},"modified":"2026-09-05T15:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T15:46:14","slug":"exploracion-motriz-en-el-nino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/en\/exploracion-motriz-en-el-nino\/","title":{"rendered":"Motor exploration in the child."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Exploraci\u00f3n Motriz en el Ni\u00f1o<\/h2>\n<p>Motor exploration in children requires an adaptive approach according to maturational age and encompasses several fundamental pillars:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Inspection and Posture:<\/strong> Observe the symmetry of movements, spontaneous posture (frog posture vs. rigid extension) and presence of deformities.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Muscle tone:<\/strong> Assess passive tone (consistency, extensibility, and resistance to passive movement) and active tone (righting and pulling reactions).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Muscle Stretch Reflexes:<\/strong> Grade the patellar, bicipital and Achilles reflexes to look for asymmetries or signs of pyramidalism (hyperreflexia, clonus).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Segmental Strength and Gait:<\/strong> Assess spontaneous walking, ability to jump, climb stairs, and Gowers sign (pelvic girdle weakness).<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exploraci\u00f3n Motriz en el Ni\u00f1o La exploraci\u00f3n motriz en ni\u00f1os requiere un enfoque adaptativo seg\u00fan la edad madurativa y abarca varios pilares fundamentales: Inspecci\u00f3n y Postura: Observar la simetr\u00eda de movimientos, postura espont\u00e1nea (postura en rana vs. extensi\u00f3n r\u00edgida) y presencia de deformidades. Tono muscular: Evaluar tono pasivo (consistencia, extensibilidad y resistencia al movimiento pasivo) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/en\/exploracion-motriz-en-el-nino\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u00abMotor exploration in the child.\u00bb<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7771"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8651,"href":"https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7771\/revisions\/8651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuropediatoolkit.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}