If you suffer from fibromyalgia, chronic pain, anxiety or ADD; Science shows us that help can be found naturally without drugs. Let me explain how.
When you have a weak muscle, you can exercise it to make it stronger, as long as the muscle is not permanently damaged. Of course, you know specifically which muscle you want to target with the exercise and how you perform the exercise. For example, if your right bicep is weak, you wouldn’t do sit-ups because your abs have nothing to do with your biceps.
Similarly, when an area of the brain is not working properly, it can also be “exercised” through various forms of brain-based therapy.
“Your brain is made up of parts. There is the cerebellum at the back of the brain and the frontal lobe located behind the forehead. Between those two parts is the parietal lobe, an occipital lobe, and a temporal lobe that work on either side of it. Think of them as appliances in your kitchen Just as each appliance has a very specific job to do, so do the parts of your brain.
Sometimes these appliances break down. If you open your refrigerator and find that your milk has spoiled and your ice cream has melted, then you know that your refrigerator needs some care. Similarly, when a part of the brain malfunctions, the associated body area or function that the brain controls will not function as it is supposed to. You may start to notice that you have severe headaches or problems with balance, vision changes, or trouble pronouncing words while talking to someone. If you don’t know which part of the brain controls these abilities, then you won’t know where the weak link in your brain is or what to do about it.
Brain-based therapy is a series of natural procedures used to identify, exercise, and strengthen weak parts of the brain through the use of sensory stimulation. It begins with a functional neurological exam of the brain to find out where the weak links are. When you come to see me, there are certain things you can do or feel that let me know that your brain is breaking down in particular areas. Once I know where the weakness is, I can use natural procedures to stimulate very specific areas of your brain to restore function.
The human brain can be damaged just like the skin on our body. If we scrape our arm, it is called an injury. The brain can also be injured. When this happens, it is because an area of tissue has been damaged due to disease or injury. There are many types of brain injury, some relatively harmless and some very dangerous. There are soft injuries and there are hard injuries.
Hard brain injuries are usually treated with medical care. When you have a hard injury, such as a stroke, you obviously know you have a problem and have probably already seen a doctor for evaluation and treatment. Soft or functional lesions occur when the brain does not receive enough stimulation and, in turn, does not get enough activity. Soft lesions cannot be visualized with typical imaging methods such as MRI or cat scans. A functional assessment should be used to evaluate a soft lesion; We call this type of evaluation a functional neurological exam. Think of it this way: Take a picture of a fully operational, partially open door in your home. Next, take a picture of a door sticking when you close it, but photograph it in the partially open position, as you did with the normally operating door. Now look at the photos. You can’t tell them apart. You would have to subject each door to all of its actions (open, close, lock, etc.) while videotaping the activity to qualify as a functional test for the doors. This is why an MRI of a brain that has a soft lesion appears normal; it is not a functional test.
We must exercise our brain just like we need to exercise our body or the brain will deteriorate. Brain-based therapy seeks to reverse these mild injuries by stimulating your senses and training your brain to be active and healthy again. This ability of the brain to change by adding new connections is called neuroplasticity.
Let’s take a moment to understand the great importance of your central nervous system. The central nervous system is made up of your brain and spinal cord and is the MASTER CONTROL CENTER and information distribution system of your body. You need fuel and activation to survive, thrive, and recover from damage. Sometimes an adequate dose of these two important elements is not obtained and that is when degeneration begins to occur.
Brain-based therapy takes into account that the nervous system is a system driven by the senses. Each of your senses is an input to your brain. Your brain receives signals from your senses and responds based on the information it receives. Without entry there will be no exit. Without stimulation, the brain loses its ability to control very important functions and it is these dysfunctions that produce many of the symptoms in chronic diseases, such as fibromyalgia, chronic pain, anxiety and ADD.
The brain depends on crucial inputs to maintain healthy function and that is why brain-based therapy is so important and effective. In my office I use sight, sound, touch, movement, vibration, heat, cold, light, and other natural tools to disrupt abnormal patterns within your brain and bring them back into balance. By using brain-based therapy, we can strengthen the brain and effectively restore its multiple pathways and connections.
Many doctors, like me, use specialized tests to measure whether you are getting enough fuel and activation for your central nervous system. If you are not getting an adequate amount of activation, we can improve your brain health by using specific exercises and stimulations targeting these weak areas. This is what brain-based therapy is all about! We also thoroughly check your body chemistry with laboratory tests for any factors that interfere with a good supply of fuel to your central nervous system and then correct for these factors.
The combination of brain-based therapy and functional metabolic tests and treatments is called Neuro-Metabolic Therapy (NMT). NMT is what enables clinicians like me to help chronically ill patients when others have given up or haven’t gone deep enough to get to the root of the nightmare of a patient’s chronic illness. There is hope with these specific rehabilitation therapies! “1
Many years of research has been done on a form of brain-based therapy called neurofeedback. As one of my mentors and colleague recently said: “I am working with a child right now. He is twelve years old, taking six medications about 6 months ago. He is very angry, has full-blown ADHD and is very impulsive. His parents tell him about it. They said They may need to institutionalize him. After six months of a gluten-free diet, neurofeedback exercises and cerebellums, the boy is almost unrecognizable. Now he is polite, behaves well and only takes one medicine. His father got excited this morning telling me how grateful he is for what I do. What a difference we make in these people’s lives. “
In summary, many cases of fibromyalgia, chronic pain, anxiety, and ADD respond well to functional neurology and even better to functional neurology, dietary changes, specific supplementation, and neurofeedback.
The best part; These state-of-the-art treatment methods are drug-free and effective. Tell someone you know who is suffering unnecessarily to check out Brain-Based Therapy
References:
1. Johnson, Karl ROS, DC. “WHAT IS JOHNSON’S BRAIN-BASED THERAPY?” Get your life back; Your guide to revealing your body’s life-changing secrets to renewed health. Charelston: CreateSpace, 2012. 13-17. Print.
