Podcast

Dr. Noel explained the importance of collaboration in healthcare not just for the patient’s benefit, but also for the benefit of the healthcare providers themselves. While Dr. Noel’s main focus and passion is spine care, he sees a wide variety of patients for a variety of other issues including brain injuries, diziness, and balance issues.

Our office uses an integrative approach which means we look at the entire person before even starting treatment. We look at the mechanical, chemical, and brain components of a person and integrate many different therapies in order to work with an individual.

Today I’m going to talk about traumatic brain injuries (also known as TBIs) and how neurofeedback can play a role in getting your brain back to where it was before it was injured.

Neurofeedback can really help in the treatment of depression, however, depression is not a simple fix and neurofeedback alone will not fix it. Neurofeedback was never intended to be a stand-alone therapy.

There are many ways that people address their sleep and try to fix their sleep issues, yet most people never think about incorporating their brain into the sleep equation. Good restorative sleep is so important for your overall health and if you want to improve your sleep, you need to consider your brain and how it might be contributing to the problem.

The way we spend our time and the things we think about have a strong influence on the patterns in our brains. Anxiety and stress are normal human emotions but are not meant to run our lives. We should be able to feel stressed or anxious and then shut that feeling off when the threat or stressor has passed.

Taking medication for attention deficit disorders seems like the logical route, but if you dive into the research, taking medication to improve focus and attention might be inadvertently having the opposite effect.

Over the next few weeks, I will talk specifically about how neurofeedback can be used for particular issues such as autism and attention deficit disorders.

Kelly shares why she brought her son in, her expectations, and some of the hurdles they faced. Hearing Kelly’s story perspective is extremely powerful.

Chiropractors don’t just adjust bones and muscles. What we do is so much more diverse. When I was in chiropractic school we learned about the WHOLE body.