You can determine if your baby has high muscle tone by holding, touching, and posture observation.
1. Holding: When holding a baby, if there is a clear sense of resistance, as if holding a stick, this suggests that the baby may have high muscle tone.
2. Touch: the most common is to touch the muscle like touching a stone, hard, there is a sense of straightness, pinch when pinched also pinch, massage to improve limited.
3. Posture observation: if the baby’s muscle tone is high, the posture of that part is usually different from the normal side, such as the two thighs in the case of straightening, to the sides of the angle of separation 1 ~ 3 months in 40 ~ 80 degrees, 7 ~ 9 months for 70 ~ 110 degrees, different months of age of the baby has a gap.
The muscle tone of newborn babies is generally on the high side and gradually normalizes with development. Therefore, if the above situation occurs in older children, they should go to a specialist hospital immediately for further examination.