Babies who like to stir up their legs are usually not hypertonic.
Babies with high muscle tone usually show abnormal posture, the more common symptoms are lower limb straightening, inward crossing, scissor-like. Sometimes there is also the phenomenon of muscle ankylosis, which can also lead to an imbalance in the tension of the extensor and flexor muscles, causing the hands and feet to move. When pulling the baby’s hands and feet will appear more resistance.
Babies like to stir up their legs is actually a common phenomenon, usually not caused by high muscle tone. Mainly because the baby’s age is too small, the cerebral cortex function has been in a state of development, in the external stimuli, the brain will dominate the baby’s limb muscles, so that it will have stirrups reaction, usually with the increase in age gradually get better, disappeared, parents do not need to worry too much.
But the baby like stirrups may also be seen in calcium deficiency, lower limb discomfort and other conditions, parents are advised to take the baby to the hospital to improve the relevant examination, clear the baby like stirrups cause, such as the existence of pathological causes, as soon as possible to follow the doctor’s instructions for targeted treatment.