Empowering Women in Chiropractic - Dr. B & Elizabeth Talk - To Get the Lips, You Have to Get the Hips!

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Hello everybody. It's me and Elizabeth, and we wanna thank ChiroSecure for giving us this platform to always enlighten the public and chiropractors about the benefits of pediatric chiropractic. So right now, Elizabeth is gonna take a little nap, as always, as we continue to hang out and cover some more exciting information.

Elizabeth, time for your little snoozer right there.

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Hey there, I am Monika Buerger, and we're in for some great information coming your way on, if you want to get the lips, you gotta get the hips. So what the heck does that mean? We are gonna talk about postural stability and oral fascial restrictions and the suck, swallow breath reflex, and a whole bunch of fun stuff.

Ready, set. Here we go. Here's the scoop. In order to get good postural stability. Good head posture for good oral swallowing and airway. Our suck, swallow, breathe reflex. It actually starts from the bottom up. So our suck, swallow, breathe reflex is an infantile reflex and it should integrate. It should be gone.

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It's got a wide range actually for between six months and 18 months, so it's a broad span in there, but what you're gonna look for, this is something I get all questions asked about quite a lot. A why is little fiddle fart not sitting independently? What's going on? And sometimes they will actually be eating, meeting other milestones like creeping, crawling on all fours, rolling and even wanting to stand, but they can't sit independently.

That's a telltale sign that there is potential neuro dysregulation and neuro mechanical restrictions that might be interfering with that. Motor ability, and we're gonna talk about that. So that sex, while a reflex is there in infancy, by latest of 18 months, we want it to be gone. But if it's not, we might see that infant toddler not having food aversions.

Okay? Because it can be scary and. To eat, to swallow if you don't have good airway capacity. So here's how it rolls about five to six months of age. This is a key milestone that we want to be mindful of and be watching for during our neuromotor development trajectory. Five to six months of age, they should be bringing their toes to their nose, right?

They're grabbing both feet and coming up in that flex position. And then they start to go to a cross lateral pattern, right? Maybe left toe with right arm, right toe with left arm. And we start to build the pelvic floor at that time. So two key. Muscle bundled muscles that are coming into play are transverse abdominal muscles and are SOAs muscles.

Here's the scoop. Here's where we start mingling everything together. SOAs ties. SOAs is referred to as the seed of the soul. It is incredibly important for postal stability in the upright position, but here's the catch. The so is actually very important for sitting stability for postal stability in the city position, and that needs to come on board in order to get core, good core control while we're sitting.

Good core posture control and good head control. And the head should be over the shoulders and over the pelvis in order to have good airway. That's where things can go cattywampus for those kiddos that don't have that good postal stability. And then you might see eating aversions. So five to six months of age toes to the nose.

Then the cross letter pattern. It's developing the transverse abdominis and the SOAs muscles. The SOAs muscles come and tie in to the inferior portion of the diaphragm. So that's how we can get some tethering. If those, if we've got either two laxs or two tight muscle bundles on those SOAs muscles, the insertion into the inferior portion of the diaphragm can start to lead to lack of diaphragmatic movement.

And that can lead to. Difficulty of that sex while a breath reflex to dissipate and not be active anymore. And it can also lead to, with lack of diaphragmatic movement, we can get aberrant vagal tone. And the vagus nerve is a huge neural modulator. That sucks. Swallow breath reflex. So hopefully you're seeing all the ties here, how it all ties together and the floor of the mouth, the tissues on the floor of the mouth insert into the superior part of the diaphragm.

So we end up with this, piss that effect between the pelvic floor and the floor of the mouth. So if we have oral restrictions. Tongue ties is a big thing that's been talked about. I've been in working in that realm for 15, 20 years-ish, but it's a big splash in these last five years or so. So if you have this fascial restriction and this piston effect between the pelvic floor and the floor of the mouth, both causing stress on the diaphragm can now stop moving.

A good breathing pattern that we need it to and act as a core stabilizer because the lack of stabilization from the pelvic floor, so the whole sequelae ends up being fascial, tension from the pelvis to the cranium. Tension on the diaphragm, lack of diaphragmatic movement. Which can potentially lead to Abra vagal tone, which modulates the suck, swallow, breathe reflex, which can lead to stress, anxiety, complications, difficulty chewing and swallowing, and lead to food aversions.

There's a lot to unpack there, and it all trickles down. Not all of it, but a lot of it trickles down to lack of neuromotor patterns established in the early year. In the early months, that five to six months. With the toes to the nose to promote that core stability. And again, the SOAs muscles are incredibly huge in this whole paradigm we have here.

And then later on what you can see are those kiddos might not not only do, are they not sitting independently again, that sex swallow reflex integrates between six and 18 months-ish. And that's when we start to see six to eight months is when you start to see the little fiddle farts sitting independently.

If they have that good postal stability. So looking, taking the whole picture into context, we wanna start making sure we take a keen eye at five to six months of age so that the train doesn't derail later on down the road. And other abnormal motor patterns you might see is the inability. To get on all fours and rock because of lack of cork stability lack of four point crawling, cross crawl pattern, and maybe what we call postal instability or postal insecurity.

And they don't wanna be upright against gravity. And that can all lead from those early aberrant abnormal motor movement patterns. So when you get a kiddo that's not sitting independently. Are not good core control where they can actually pivot and move off the center of their axis by eight months of age and they're not doing well on transitioning to eating independently, I want you to think posture instability.

I want you to look at the pelvic floor. I want you to look at vertebral subluxations and the lumbar, the pelvis. Look at the SOAs. You might need to do a SOAs release. If there's some so as restriction in there and and of course don't negate the rest of the spine, the cranium, and the floor of the mouth.

Okay, so I know that was a lot to unpack, but here's a scoop. If you really wanna learn and master this information, scroll down right now. Scroll down, join our six pillars of foundations of Neurodevelopment certification course Six Pillars. It gives you a all the information you need to learn master and be able to identify the train before it derails.

So I'll see you on the inside of that amazing program once again. Elizabeth and I wanna thank ChiroSecure for giving us this platform. And we wanna wish you the mest of holidays. Merry Christmas, happy New Year. We cannot wait to join you in 2026 for more incredible information. And again, ChiroSecure.

Thank you for having our backs and for caring about the profession and helping the future generations to understand pediatric chiropractic.

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