You may recognise in your child not only a problem with bedwetting, but also fidgetiness, ticklishness, a lack of focus, poor short-term memory and other learning or behavioural problems. A retained Spinal Galant is responsible for all these symptoms and we often see them in the same child who has come to us because of their bedwetting problem. As these are addressed the enuresis often rights itself.
Perhaps your child has gone through the trauma and stress of your divorce or bullying at school, and you have put the bedwetting down to this. This may indeed be the case if your child has suddenly started bedwetting after a period of bladder control (known as secondary enuresis). However, there may still be a link with Retained Reflex Syndrome. Stressful episodes can have more impact on a child with RRS, because he or she is emotionally less mature than a fully developed child. Equally, a child with retained primitive reflexes is physically less developed, as he will have dormant adult reflexes that are preventing him from achieving full control of his muscles.
An older child or adult may learn to retain tension in the lower back during sleep as a way of controlling the bladder, which can lead to lower back problems. All such outcomes can be treated at the root and permanently cured with the Mulhall Integration Programme, which will clear the retained primitive reflexes and allow the adult reflexes to take over.
