Body rocking, head banging, and head rolling in normal children

Sallustro, Frank; Atwell, Constance W.

doi:10.1016/s0022-3476(78)80922-6

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“…The FAI, including family structure, parental occupation, parental education level, and parental age at the birth of the child, was not significantly correlated with the presence of any of the parasomnias. As in previous studies, 4,15,38,39 no correlations were found between sociodemographic variables and sleepwalking, night terrors, somniloquy, leg restlessness, sleep bruxism, or body rocking.…”

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“…55 This latter epidemiologic study also reported a progressive decrease in the prevalence of bruxism from young adulthood to old age. 55 As found in previous studies of sleep bruxism 14,38,54,64,65 or body rocking, 15,66,67 no gender differences were found for these conditions in this study. There has been no previous study of the association between sleep bruxism and other parasomnias in a large population of randomly selected children.…”

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“…Nocturnal body rocking represents rhythmic movements of the axial muscles in the back and forth or right and left motion occurring mostly during the transition from wakefulness to sleep. Sallustro and Atwell 15 reported that 19.1% of 483 children from 3 months to 6 years old seen for their regular medical examination were body rockers.…”

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Development of Parasomnias From Childhood to Early Adolescence

Laberge

Tremblay²,

Vitaro³

et al. 2000

Pediatrics

369

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ABSTRACT.Objectives. This study examines the prevalence and developmental changes of parasomnias and assesses gender differences, relationships between parasomnias, and associations with anxiety and family adversity using data collected during the course of a longitudinal study of a representative sample of children from Québec.Method. The present analyses are based on results available for 664 boys and 689 girls for whom mothers have completed questions concerning demographics, parasomnias, and anxiety level. For the prevalence and developmental aspects of parasomnias, prospective data were collected at annual intervals from 11 to 13 years old and retrospective data for the period between ages 3 and 10 years were collected when the children were 10 years old.Results. Somniloquy, leg restlessness, and sleep bruxism are the most frequent parasomnias. More girls were afflicted with leg restlessness, while enuresis and somniloquy were more common in boys. High anxiety scores were found in children suffering from night terrors, somniloquy, leg restlessness, sleep bruxism, and body rocking. Parasomnias were unrelated to the index of family adversity.Conclusions. Although sleepwalking, night terrors, enuresis, and body rocking dramatically decreased during childhood, somniloquy, leg restlessness, and sleep bruxism were still highly prevalent at age 13 years, paralleling results found in adults. Sleepwalking, night terrors, and somniloquy are conditions often found together. The only robust gender difference was for enuresis. High anxiety scores in parasomnias are reported for the first time in a large, controlled study. Sociodemographic variables do not seem to play a major role in the occurrence of parasomnias. Pediatrics 2000; 106:67-74; sleep disorders, parasomnias, epidemiology, gender differences, anxiety, childhood, adolescence.

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Development of Parasomnias From Childhood to Early Adolescence

Laberge

Tremblay²,

Vitaro³

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“…Movements were not required to be sleep related; indeed 44.2% of body-rockers, 33.3% of head-bangers and 43.5% of head-rollers did not exhibit movements when tired or at bedtime (29), suggesting only a minority could be candidates for RMD. Klackenberg's(4) study of 212 Swedish children randomly selected from the prospective longitudinal Stockholm study reported that at 9 months (n=203), body-rocking was more common (43%) than head-banging (28%) or…”

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Rhythmic movement disorder in childhood: An integrative review

Gwyther

Walters

Hill

2017

Sleep Medicine Reviews

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“…18 Nonetheless, the annual frequency that was reported in this study is still lower than what was reported in other studies for the same age range. 45,46 Sleep-related rhythmic-movement disorder was found to be associated with depression in the mother and low family SES. Body-rocking is usually considered a pleasant self-soothing behavior associated with sleep onset, but it has been suggested that it reflects an unbalanced mother-child relationship.…”

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Dyssomnias and Parasomnias in Early Childhood

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OBJECTIVES. Our aim for this study was to determine the prevalence of dyssomnias and various parasomnias in early childhood and to describe their temporal evolution, gender differences, and correlates.METHODS. This research is part of a longitudinal study of child development. A randomized, 3-level, stratified survey design was used to study a representative sample of infants who were born in 1997-1998 in the province of Quebec (Canada). When the children were 2.5 years of age, 1997 families agreed to be interviewed. The presence of dyssomnias or parasomnias was obtained from a self-administered questionnaire that was completed by the mother at each round of measures.RESULTS. The percentage of children with frequent night wakings decreased steadily from 36.3% at age 2.5 to 13.2% at age 6. Similarly, the percentage of children who had difficulty falling asleep at night decreased significantly from 16.0% at ages 3.5 and 4 to 10% at age 5 and to 7.4% at age 6. The overall prevalence of each parasomnia for the period studied was as follows: somnambulism, 14.5%; sleep terrors, 39.8%; somniloquy, 84.4%; enuresis, 25.0%; bruxism, 45.6%; and rhythmic movements, 9.2%. Persistent somnambulism at age 6 was significantly correlated with sleep terrors and somniloquy. Persistent sleep terrors at age 6 were also correlated with somniloquy. Finally, persistent sleep terrors at age 6 were correlated with frequent night wakings. Separation anxiety was associated with persistent night wakings and with somnambulism, bruxism, sleep terrors, and somniloquy.CONCLUSIONS. There is a high prevalence of night wakings and sleep-onset difficulties in preschool children. Parasomnias are highly prevalent in early childhood and are associated with separation anxiety. However, they have little impact on sleep duration.www.pediatrics.org/cgi

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Body rocking, head banging, and head rolling in normal children

Cited by 125 publications

References 12 publications

Development of Parasomnias From Childhood to Early Adolescence

Development of Parasomnias From Childhood to Early Adolescence

Rhythmic movement disorder in childhood: An integrative review

Dyssomnias and Parasomnias in Early Childhood

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