Sensory Challenges

Common Sensory Processing Challenges

• Over-responsiveness to sound, light, touch, or movement
• Under-responsiveness or seeking out intense sensory input
• Difficulty filtering background noise or visual clutter
• Discomfort with certain textures, clothing, or foods
• Motion sensitivity or difficulty with balance
• Becoming easily overwhelmed in busy environments

How MST™ Works With the Brain

Sensory processing — the brain's ability to filter, modulate, and integrate input from multiple senses — is one of the earliest skills the brain learns, typically developing before age three. MST™ helps the brain learn or relearn multi-sensory filtering. It simultaneously engages prescribed frequencies of colored light, vestibular (motion) stimulation, auditory stimulation, and somatosensory input, distributing therapeutic stimulation across multiple sensory systems at once so that stronger systems may help support weaker ones, rather than addressing each sense in isolation.

The typical program is a 12-day in-office intensive (two 30-minute sessions per day), followed by an 18-day at-home continuation. Most people notice early changes before the program is complete, though the full effect is typically not apparent until around 90 days.

MST™ is not a stand-alone intervention. It is intended as an adjunct to a person’s overall care, and it is designed to provide a foundation for higher-level interventions (such as classroom instruction, speech, cognitive or occupational therapy, and tutoring) that presume a solid base of sensory processing. It works from the bottom up, at the subcortical level, on how the brain takes in input rather than on the output a person is asked to produce. These statements have not been evaluated by any regulatory authority and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.