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Traumatic Brain Injury
FACTS:
- Traumatic Brain Injury causes 20 times
more disabilities than AIDS, Breast Cancer, Spinal Cord Injuries,
and Multiple Sclerosis combined.
- Traumatic Brain Injuries have claimed
more lives than all U.S. wars combined since 1977.
- Approximately 1.5 million Americans
sustain a Traumatic Brain Injury each year.
- Traumatic Brain Injury is the number one
cause of both death and disability in children and young
adults.
- Each year in America
approximately 300,000 individuals are seen by Medical Doctors as a
result of a blow to their head. Of that number, between 50,000 and
100,000 will have prolonged symptoms affecting their relationships
and/or their abilities to work.
Children who have suffered head trauma often evidence
severe conduct problems. They can be moody, hyperactive, impulsive,
angry, aggressive and conflict seeking. This type of behavior
is often misdiagnosed as ADD and a drug such as Ritalin is
prescribed, which most often makes the problems more intense or have
no effect.
When someone
suffers trauma, be it emotional or physical, or becomes
neurophysiologically imbalanced, neurofeedback may be of enormous
benefit to help them reclaim their potential. Although it
won't make someone smarter, faster, or better than they are
physically or genetically capable, neurofeedback can bring back
their best.
Often those who've experienced the
benefits of neurofeedback feel a sense of becoming their "old
self"—reclaiming the the potential and capabilities they have
previously experienced at peak times.  Successful training helps the brain and
nervous system to regain equilibrium and stability and better
control and balance itself.
In neurological functioning, a minor
change of state can manifest in a profound difference in one's
subjective experience. When stress or other outside factors,
or biologically based mechanisms, disturb the nervous equilibrium,
neurofeedback can catalyze the brains own ability to rebalance,
which to the stressed individual, can be experienced as a reversal
effect.
With neurofeedback
training, the central nervous system learns to retone it's own
reactions to stimulation. The size of one's neurological
reaction reduces, which helps the person to be more discerning and
function at a higher level.
Individuals in the performing arts,
athletes, and others involved in activities requiring high levels of
functioning appreciate the advantage of performing at their peak
potential. And when one knows of having lost that potential,
reclaiming it is really regaining the world of
possibilities. | 
