Free Consumer Webinar: October 27
Traumatic Head and Brain injuries: Is it Really 'All in Your Head?'
What’s the most important thing I can tell you about how Brainwave Optimization helps people with traumatic brain injuries? It’s that our technology provides you with an unmatched opportunity to see and understand what is going on inside your head. No guesswork. No speculation. We see. We measure. We document – and we even show you the pictures.
Did you know that most people who visit a doctor’s office or an emergency room for a head injury leave with an unclear diagnosis and most often, no treatment at all? This is because even advanced medical tests do not have the ability to “see” how the brain or its functioning has been affected by the blow.
Let me give you an example of what can happen. “Mary” is a 57-year-old female who was rear-ended while sitting in her parked car, looking out her window. She walked away from the accident with nearly no hint of bodily injury, but she experienced slurred speech and couldn’t coordinate her legs to walk. She came to Brain State Technologies out of futility. Every MRI, FMRI, PET scan and CAT scan came up empty. She knew something was wrong.
Our technology doesn’t look at the same things that these medical diagnostic tools look at. Instead, we use EEG sensors coupled with a highly advanced neuro-technology to detect what is happening with your brainwaves. This is a comfortable, holistic and non-invasive process. After about an hour, we had completed a full assessment of the activity in Mary’s brain. Yes; there was a problem and it could be documented. We were able to see exactly where the brainwaves were not functioning as they should. Mary decided to continue with Brainwave Optimization and after a few sessions, her headaches diminished, dizziness ended and sleep improved. After about 40 sessions, her speech had recovered and she was able to walk steadily and safely again.
My comment to Mary was, “You walked away from that car accident, but your brain didn’t.” I’ve seen this over and over. What can appear to be a minor hit can have major life consequences when the head is turned just the wrong way, the impact comes at the wrong angle or the trauma hits an area that was previously affected.
People often ask me if their problems were caused by the physical or psychological trauma they endured. My answer is typically, that is it likely to be both. But the beauty of our approach is that it doesn’t really matter. Trauma is trauma. Whether it’s a hit to the head or a “hit to the heart,” trauma results in real physiological changes in brainwave activity and a very real compromise in your ability to live your life. We see it every day.
But, here’s what I think is most important about the work we do: Our clients tell us that experiencing Brainwave Optimization gives them a sense of hope that they didn’t have before. They begin to believe that the blow to their head didn’t sentence them to a life of limitations. They feel more connected to self; more connected to others. So, as much as we rely on hard data, this is a gratifying result that I just can’t measure.
Does conventional medicine recognize our work? Well, let’s just say that we’ve come a long way and we have a long way to go. We just completed a clinical trial with one of the country’s top medical schools and neurologists on how Brainwave Optimization can help insomnia and we are about to launch another study on use of Brainwave Optimization to create brain relaxation to mitigate migraines.
NHL hockey player Kurt Sauer found us after a series of head injuries that knocked him out of his career. You can read his story and view a presentation about Brainwave Optimization here: Click here to read full article.
According to a recent story about Kurt in the Arizona Republic, the important thing is this: “He's had about 40 sessions, and Sauer's brain is 80 percent of the way to being at the normal, healthy, functioning level. A Mayo Clinic spokesperson said neurologists with the hospital weren't familiar with the treatment, but Sauer has experienced concrete results.”
Brainwave Optimization isn’t for everyone, but if what you read here resonates with you, I encourage you to check us out.
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Traumatic Brain and Head Injuries:
How Brainwave Optimization Can Help
Thursday, October 27, 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.
(Pacific Time)
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| An excerpt from Lee Gerdes’ book, Limitless You: The Infinite Possibilities of a Balanced Brain
Chapter19:
Traumatic Brain Injury
A traumatic brain injury leaves an imbalance in the autonomic nervous system. With severe stress, particularly at the time of injury, the brain shifts into either a freeze response or a fight-flight response.
The freeze state is associated with the shunting of blood from muscles to organs in the body core. The racing heart slows to a crawl, blood pressure drops, and tense muscles collapse and become still. Additionally, memory access and storage are impaired, resulting in some degree of amnesia. If a freeze state remains dominant after a traumatic brain injury, the result can be depression, dizziness or lightheadedness, decreased clarity of thought, confusion, difficulty organizing thoughts, fatigue, bowel problems, a low heart rate, and peripheral neuropathy (damage to the network that transmits information from the central nervous system to every other part of the body).
If a fight-or-flight state is dominant, a greater alertness, increased energy, and greater muscle strength are experienced. Blood pressure and heart rate increase, and pupils dilate to let more light into the eyes in order to increase visual acuity. This can result in hypervigilance, nervousness, panic attacks, anxiety, fear and paranoia, poor sleep, shakiness and heart palpitations, stroke, heart attack, heart disease, cold hands and feet, and headaches.
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Newsletter - October 2011
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