Conditions We Treat

What is Brain Health?

Why does it seem there is so much more awareness about keeping our bodies healthy, when our brain is the most important organ in the human body? The brain is the body’s command center. Most people think brain power relates only intelligence and thinking, and overlook the fact that the brain controls all body functions. We rarely think about our eyes blinking, heart beating, or our breathing. Our brain controls these and all other body functions.

There is a part of the brain called the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS). This system works automatically (autonomously), without your ever thinking about it. ANS regulates certain body functions, such as blood pressure and the rate of breathing. It controls salivary glands, eye dilation, heartbeat, and organs and muscles.

The brain also coordinates actions and reactions. It gives us the ability to learn, remember, plan, organize, concentrate, feel and think. And allows us to have memories and emotions.

Our daily life habits and lifestyle choices have a affect our brain. Keeping your brain healthy is important at any age, giving you the best chance at leading a full and happy life.

What is Brain Rehabilitation?

Have you suffered a brain injury from concussion, stroke, or infection? Have you experienced cognitive issues from ADD/ADHD, PTSD, or a chronic illness like as Lyme Disease? Your brain needs specific treatments and rehabilitation to regain full function. The goal of Brain Rehabilitation is to recover or re-learn brain functions impaired by brain injury or illness. Like if you had a physical injury and needed physical therapy (PT) to recover. Brain Rehabilitation helps you regain your brain activity through neuroplasticity, where you can repair and/or form new neurons and neural pathways. Helping you regain a resilient brain and mind, and return your life to its optimal level.

What is Brain Fitness?

Brain Fitness can benefit anyone seeking to improve their memory, focus, recall, or mental clarity and performance. Brain Fitness refers to treatments and methods which strengthen connections between neurons and/or form new neurons and neuropath ways to maintain optimum brain function. From a brain healthy diet – to brain games – to cutting-edge technologies such as neurofeedback, there are various ways to strengthen your brain.

Many athletes, executives and performing artists use brain fitness training to achieve peak performance. Like other muscles in the body, the brain can repair itself, also known as neuroplasticity. To stay physically fit, you would go to a gym and learn specific exercises to strengthen your muscles. Brain fitness training is similar.

There are seven brain waves produced from various regions of your brain. Physical or emotional trauma or biochemical changes can affect these brain waves. Just as you can have weak abdominal muscles while having strong thighs, you can have over or under firing of your brain waves in various parts of your brain. Brain fitness training can help regulate brain waves improving brain function.