Do you remember those stress balls that sat on every desk, offering a doughy outlet for a tough day at work? Today, you can’t miss the multitude of calming toys, fidget spinners and tactile strips on the market designed to quell anxiety and redirect our behavioral responses. In stressful situations, these may be acceptable coping mechanisms but provide only a short-term fix for a more complex challenge.

When pressure is applied to the inner pads of an infant’s fingers, they curl inward to grasp or hold something. Palmer is considered a part of cling, associated with early evoluMonary signs of animals aNaching to their mother for safety and care and integrates over the first year of life. The Infant Plantar reflex refers to the curling of toes when pressure is applied to the ball of the foot. It is present at birth and integrates as we develop more complex movements as crawling and later walking develop.