Fibromyalgia, Chronic Pain, Anxiety, ADD, and Your Brain
If you suffer from fibromyalgia, chronic pain, anxiety, or ADD; science shows us that you can find help, 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 isn’t permanently damaged. Of course, you need to know specifically which muscle you want to target with the exercise and how you perform the exercise. For example, if your right biceps muscle is weak, you wouldn’t do crunches because your abdominal muscles 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’s the Cerebellum at the back of the brain and the Frontal Lobe located behind your forehead. Between those two parts is the Parietal Lobe, an Occipital Lobe, and a Temporal Lobe working on both sides of the brain.” . brain. Think of them like appliances in your kitchen. Just as every appliance has a very specific job to do, so do the parts of your brain.
Sometimes these appliances break down. If you open your fridge and find that your milk has gone bad and your ice cream has melted, then you know your fridge needs a little TLC. Similarly, when a part of the brain malfunctions, the associated area of the body or function that the brain controls will not work the way it is supposed to. You may start to notice that you have severe headaches or problems with your balance, vision changes, or trouble getting your words out while talking to someone. If you don’t know which part of the brain controls these abilities, 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 starts with a functional neurological exam of the brain to find out where the weak points are. When you come to see me, there are certain things you can do or feel that let me know that your brain is falling apart 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 scratch our arm it is called an injury. The brain can also be injured. When this occurs it is because an area of tissue has been damaged by disease or injury. There are many types of brain injuries, some relatively harmless and others very dangerous. There are soft injuries and there are hard injuries.
Hard brain injuries are usually treated medically. 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 injuries occur when the brain does not receive enough stimulation and, in turn, does not receive enough activity. Soft lesions cannot be visualized with typical imaging methods, such as MRI or CT 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 open and partially open door in your home. Next, take a picture of a door that gets stuck when you close it, but photograph it in the partially open position, just like 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 (opening, closing, locking, etc.) while videotaping the activity to qualify as a functional test for the doors. That’s why an MRI of a brain that has a soft lesion appears normal; it is not a functional test.
We must exercise our brains just as we need to exercise our bodies or the brain will deteriorate. Brain-Based Therapy seeks to reverse these soft injuries by stimulating your senses and training your brain to become 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 the brain and spinal cord and is the MASTER CONTROL CENTER and information distribution system for your body. You need fuel and activation to survive, thrive, and recover from damage. Sometimes it does not receive an adequate dose of these two important elements 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 cause many of the symptoms of chronic diseases, such as fibromyalgia, chronic pain, anxiety, and ADD.
The brain depends on crucial inputs to maintain healthy functioning and this 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 myself, use specialized tests to measure whether you are getting enough fuel and activation for your central nervous system. If you are not receiving an adequate amount of activation, we can improve the health of your brain by using specific exercises and stimulations that target these weak areas. This is what Brain-Based Therapy is all about! We also thoroughly review your body chemistry with laboratory tests to detect any factors that may interfere with the proper supply of fuel to your central nervous system and then correct these factors.
The combination of Brain-Based Therapy and functional metabolic tests and treatments is called Neuro-Metabolic Therapy (NMT). NMT is what allows doctors like me to help patients with chronic health conditions when others have given up or been unable to dig deep enough to get to the root of a patient’s chronic condition nightmare. There is hope with these targeted rehabilitation therapies!” 1
Many years of research have been done on a form of brain-based therapy called neurofeedback. As one of my mentors and colleagues recently said, “I’m working with a boy right now. He’s twelve years old, he’s been on six medications about 6 months ago. He’s very angry, he has full-blown ADHD, and he’s very impulsive. His parents told him “They may need to put him in an institution. After six months of a gluten-free diet, neurofeedback, and cerebellar exercises, the boy is nearly unrecognizable. He now has good manners, he behaves well and he only takes one medicine. His father was emotional, “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 with functional neurology, dietary changes, targeted 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 needlessly to try Brain-Based Therapy
References:
1. Johnson, Karl ROS, DC. “WHAT IS JOHNSON BRAIN-BASED THERAPY?” Get the life back from him; Guide her to reveal the life-changing secrets of his body to renewed health. Charelston: CreateSpace, 2012. 13-17. Print.