The MNRI method uses hands-on facilitation to guide the child through patterns of exercises to integrate reflexes. At Solaris Pediatric Therapy, we use both the manual, hands-on exercises of the Masgutova Neurosensorimotor Reflex Integration (MNRI) method, laser therapy called Quantum Reflex Integration (QRI) and sensory integration therapy. There are different kinds of reflex integration techniques. 3 Reflex integration techniques help the child to progress through all the phases of the Moro reflex movement pattern, promoting more normal movement and responses to stimuli. All these factors negatively affect the child’s behavior and concentration.Īn unintegrated Moro reflex in childhood may present as an exaggerated startle reflex as an adult. The child may be in a constant hypervigilant state, stressing the body and decreasing immune function. The child may have difficulty looking up and down between a whiteboard and desk at school. If unintegrated, the child may have trouble with gross motor coordination, poor adaptability, hypersensitivity to sensory stimuli, and distractibility. The infant response is to breathe in and open the arms and legs, and then breathe out and close the arms and legs. Moro is a protective reflex that is triggered by a sudden change in head position or suddenly bringing the baby down and up.
The Moro reflex develops in utero and typically integrates when a baby is 2-4 months old. Let’s look at an example, the Moro reflex. ( 2,3) A child with unintegrated reflexes could benefit from skilled reflex integration therapy which will essentially train a child’s brain by establishing an efficient movement pattern that supports higher level motor skills or cognitive tasks. A child with integrated reflexes has normal movement patterns to complete these functional tasks at home and at school. A child needs motor control to maintain proper posture at a desk in school, ride a bike, read a book, cross midline, write, and get dressed.
Integrated reflexes are important for developing motor control. Each reflex has an associated sensory stimulation and corresponding pattern of movements that can be integrated or unintegrated.
Primitive reflexes are the neurological building blocks of learned skills and motor development, coordination skills, cognitive skills and behavior patterns. Reflexes help us to survive, search for food (rooting and sucking reflex), protection (moro), avoid danger (grasping from falling), to walk (stepping reflex). Reflexes are automatic movements that happen without conscious thought.
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