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الملخص EN

The Masgutova Neurosensorimotor Reflex Integration (MNRI®) method is a rehabilitative scientific method, whose origins and rules were developed by Dr.

Svetlana Masgutova, Professor of Applied Psychology at the University of Russia.

Through a manual training activity on the body parts, which leads to an improvement in their motor, emotional, cognitive, linguistic and educational abilities.

The general idea of Masgotova's method is to support the integration of motor patterns of primary reflexes, regardless of the person's condition or age.

Primary reflexes are defined as the automatic reactions of the nervous system to the presence of a specific stimulus, specifically (tactile, auditory, visual, vestibular, deep sensory, or olfactory), appearing in the form of a postural or motor response (or secretion of the gland).

, or pupil movement), with the aim of stimulating neurodevelopment, and activating protective mechanisms.

Reflexes are the first and oldest of the behavioral motor genotypes, which must be integrated into highly controlled sensorimotor abilities and skills, to provide processing or decoding of input, programming, control of motor and behavioral actions, memory, learning, language and communication.

Thus, mature reflex patterns create the neurophysiological basis for development and learning; While the poor development of reflexes leads to a lack of integration of the senses, movements and interactive responses, behavior, a lack of postural control, poor programming and motor coordination that negatively affect motivation and achievement.

Masgotova's methodology relies on exercises and techniques called relocation or pattern redrawing; Which means the re-education, recoding, and redirection of specific neural pathways, of dynamic and postural reflex patterns.

As the excitation of these neural pathways aims to strengthen and stabilize embryonic sensory memories, and activate the innate defense mechanisms of the body's "alarm" system in the brain.

Since Masgotova's method entered Egypt and from there to the Arab world in mid-2015, it has been subject to criticism, mostly for the lack of necessary information about it, and for the misinterpretation of some of its methods.

In this research, I tried to refute the forms of criticism in a scientific and methodical way, based on a balance of practical experience and applied practice in the field of rehabilitation of persons with disabilities.