Neuro-Sensory-Motor Integration of Reflexes
Neuro-Sensorimotor Approach (MNRI):
Prevention and Restoration of Nervous System Functions
Neuro-Sensorimotor Approach (MNRI): Prevention and Restoration of Nervous System Functions
When the nervous system malfunctions, it affects everything from emotional regulation to physical coordination, like holding a pen or tying shoelaces. Our approach focuses on retraining the nervous system through the integration of primary reflexes—the very foundation upon which all human psychological and motor development is built.
Who is this for?
This method is universal, safe, and tailored for all ages:
- Children and adults experiencing high stress or developmental challenges.
- Expectant mothers (pre-pregnancy preparation and prenatal support to reduce maternal stress and support the baby’s development).
When to Pay Attention? (Signals for Help)
Sometimes, a child’s or an adult’s nervous system signals exhaustion or developmental delays. These signs manifest across three key areas:
Area of Concern | How We Can Help |
Emotional | Sleep disturbances, infant crying, phobias, acute or chronic stress, burnout, hypersensitivity to sensory stimuli, emotional trauma. |
Physical | Motor development delays, poor posture, writing difficulties (dysgraphia), poor coordination, general clumsiness, unexplained physical pain. |
Cognitive | Speech delays and disorders, attention and concentration deficits (ADHD symptoms), learning difficulties in school. |
How Do Developmental Delays Manifest in Children?
It can be difficult for parents to know whether a child will “grow out of it” or if they need support. Here are specific indicators that the nervous system is struggling:
- Muscle Tone: The child feels too “floppy” (low muscle tone) or, conversely, overly rigid and tense.
- Missed Milestones: The child cannot sit up independently, frequently pulls their legs up to the chest, or completely skipped the crawling stage.
- Gross Motor Challenges: Delayed walking, walking on tiptoes, inability to ride a bicycle, or general balance issues.
- Speech Barriers: The child is non-verbal, lags behind age-appropriate speech milestones, or their vocabulary is “stuck” at a certain level.
The Power of the Method: Trauma and Recovery
This approach holds immense rehabilitation potential for dealing with severe psychological trauma.
Historical Fact: The reflex integration method was originally developed in Russia by Dr. Svetlana Masgutova to provide emergency psychiatric aid to children affected by a catastrophic train disaster (the Ufa train crash in 1989). The method successfully helped dozens of children emerge from deep shock and autistic-like states, restoring them to normal life. If this system can heal PTSD of that magnitude, it is deeply effective for everyday trauma as well.
What We Offer
Reflex integration is not a “magic pill” that changes everything overnight. It is a gentle, systematic process of retraining the brain and body.
Yes, it takes time and consistency. However, the result is a fundamental improvement in your child’s quality of life, physical health, and emotional well-being.
The effect of experiential learning on neuroplasticity and physical well-being in adults:
- Optimization the 3-dimentional symmetry of the body, and the protective response of the whole body and the stress resilience.
- Emotional development and behavior patterns (tendency for overprotection, emotional instability, poor emotional maturation, ADHD, aggression, fears)
- Cognitive development (delay of language development, poor memory)
- Core mechanisms correlating with the protection and survival
- Release the non-productive protection tendencies at the somatic level, and to make new possibilities for experiencing positive protection, supplying the feelings of comfort and balance
- Improves immunity system
- Activates natural genetics resources of the brain and the whole systems of the body (self-regenerating)
- Building the neuro-senso-motor basis for motor coordination and postural control
- Regulates the tone of mussels
- Activates the awareness of the body processes and provides a feeling of safety for interaction with the world ( the World is OK and I’m OK)
The Masgutova metod®/MNRI® (Masgutova Neurosensorimotor Reflex Integration)
Dr Svetlana Masgutova is the researcher and creator of the MNRI® Reflex Integration programme. This programme is based on her ideas, personal and professional experience and the results of many years of work with children and adults.
Due to the effectiveness of the techniques and research, Dr Masgutova has also begun to use neurophysiologically based tactile integration in her work with people with sensory-motor deficits and various developmental problems. This programme can be used with people of all ages and symptoms as a method of improving their sensorimotor integration, intellectual, social and emotional development, and as an anti-stress programme following trauma. The MNRI® Tactile Neurointegration Programme is presented by MNRI® certified trainers and practitioners in many countries around the world.
Method uses reflex patterns to awaken the sensorimotor genetic memory and enable the nervous system to restore deficient functions more quickly and easily. This can include body movement (inability to walk, poor functioning), vision (poor eye tracking and vestibular eye capacity), hearing (poor decoding of words affecting comprehension), concentration, memory recall, thought processes, emotional and behavioural regulation and much more.
The MNRI® programme has proven to be very effective in helping neurotypical people who need support to achieve their goals (sports, learning, competition, business, etc.). We have also seen very significant results in working with children and adults with neurological deficits and learning difficulties.
Neuro-Tactile Integration MNRI®
The terms “tactile sensitivity” (hypersensitivity) and “tactile insensitivity” (poor or no sensation) are used to characterise sensory processing problems, which can range from mild, moderate to severe. Tactile insensitivity with the most extreme sensory registration causes distress in daily life.
Possible signs of poor tactile perception and discrimination may include, but are not limited to, the following:
– Difficulty in identifying the characteristics of an object by touch – shape, size, texture, temperature, weight, etc.
– Feeling objects in order to explore them after the age of 2 years
– Difficulties with using silverware, scissors, crayons, etc.
– Difficulties with fine motor skills, e.g. buttoning buttons, zips and clothing.
– Inability to identify the part of the body being touched in the absence of visual contact
– Anxiety or fear of the dark
– Identifies as sloppily dressed; looks dishevelled, doesn’t notice trousers rolled up, shirt half unbuttoned, shoes not tied, one trouser leg up and one down, etc.
– Inability to identify objects by touch, has to rely on sight when reaching across a table or backpack to retrieve an object.
– Avoids friendly touch from anyone other than parents, family members or close friends
– Avoids playing with sand, water, glue, glitter, plasticine, etc.
– Avoids dirty hands or wants to wash hands frequently
– Extremely afraid of tickling
– Constantly looking for some type of stimulus (texture, temperature)
– Lack of caution with dangerous objects such as knives, sharp, hot and cold objects.
When a person is hypersensitive and feels the need for tactile sensations more than usual, they may feel more intense, possibly dangerous pressure from objects such as sharp edges, scissors, knives, broken glass, prolonged spinning in circles, a desire to touch everything around them, or a misplaced desire for comfort from a certain type of texture.
When a person is overly sensitive to touch, it can be compared to the intensely sensitive sensation experienced by nerves when touching a painful wound or an irritating cut on the skin. Over-sensitivity causes a person to feel the sensation intensely, whereas it is usually not as intense in people with normal tactile sensitivity. In addition, people with this oversensitivity do not get used to the sensation, no matter how many times they have been exposed to the same quality (texture, pressure, temperature). Such a person may feel bombarded daily with a flood of overwhelming and unpleasant sensory experiences.
The skin is closely connected to internal organs such as connective tissue, adrenal glands and endocrine glands. Nervous and vascular reactions begin in the skin. The German scientist S. Schmidt said that the skin is the largest gland of the human internal system.
Dr. Svetlana Masgutova