“Missing Milestones” |
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Authors: | Nadeem A. Afzal Diana L. Martin Patricia I. Atkinson |
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Affiliation: | a University College of London,b Crawley Hospital, Crawley, UK |
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Abstract: | Missing milestones are known to be a normal variant of development. The purpose of our study is to find if missing milestones always lead to normal development?
METHODS
This is a prospective case study on seven patients referred for motor developmental problems from July 1997 to February 1998 and then followed over a 2-year period. On each attendance, the multi-disciplinary team assessed children
RESULTS
We present a case series of seven children with “missing motor milestones”. Six of the seven, had tactile defensiveness but absent parachute reflexes on presentation
At the end of the two year period, 3 infants had normal development (Group I). One was discharged after 7 months. The second one had speech problems most likely secondary to her bilateral serous otitis media, with no other developmental problems. The third child acquired age appropriate milestones before the care was transferred to another hospital. Of the four in Group II, three developed global developmental delay and the fourth was diagnosed to have multiple cavernous haemangiomata in the brain. The pre-school alert panel was alerted for two of them possibly needing future help in school
Five of the seven children in our study were still being followed up after two years
CONCLUSIONS
Missing milestones in a subject can be a benign variation of normal motor development. However, they may also be the first sign to appear in children with neuro-developmental disorders
Tactile defensiveness may be the most useful early sign to enable the early diagnosis of non-weight bearing children with 'missing milestones' |
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Keywords: | missing milestones motor development tactile defensiveness bottom shuffling developmental delay |
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