Bridge to Healing (Masgutova Method) Meeting

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This Saturday, January 14th is the monthly meeting for parents and professionals

interested in the Masgutova Method (MNRI). For more information on location and

time please write. MNRI goes to the core deficit in any developmental diagnosis

and works at integrating retained reflexes that hold children back from

maturing.

Our goal is to help you understand the difference between automatic motor

reflexes and learned motor reflexes, the role of simple to more complex

automatic motor reflexes in establishing a solid developmental foundation, and

how reflexes work to automatically regulate each of our bodies under normal

conditions in reaction to normal stress, or traumatic situations. This basic

information can help you better understand why primary motor reflex patterns

(sometimes referred to as primitive reflexes or infant reflexes), in particular,

play such a big roll in maturation, development, and normal life function.

Fundamental to the MNRI Method is the understanding that automatic primary motor

reflex patterns do not disappear, they integrate. While most people in the

general health and wellness community are quite familiar with primary motor

reflex patterns, they generally view the patterns as developmental milestones.

In the course of working with a patient, if primary motor reflex patterns are

found active beyond the expected or typical developmental time period, the

presence of the pattern is viewed as an indication that underlying developmental

or neurological issues may exist. Within the framework of the MNRI Method,

primary motor reflex patterns play a much larger role. First, it is important to

understand that reflexes do not function in complete isolation of one another.

Primary motor reflex patterns, in particular, play a subordinate role in the

maturation of more complex motor reflex schemes (i.e., rolling over, sitting up,

crawling, etc.) Once a primary reflex pattern fully matures during the typical

developmental period, it integrates to serve this subordinate role. A

dysfunctional pattern results either because it did not mature and integrate in

the first place or because it has re-surfaced at some point after integration.

In other words, a dysfunctional primary reflex pattern is not simply an indictor

of potential neurological dysfunction, but actually helps to identify where

underlying neurosensorimotor dysfunction exists in the body. The MNRI Method

isolates reflex dysfunction, engages restorative techniques targeting underlying

neurosensorimotor dysfunction, and works toward facilitating the integration

process, resulting in improvements and sometimes even complete recovery of

general function.