We may not all walk the same, but we all walk together.
What is an alternative therapy?
Typically complimentary and alternative therapies are not covered by any medical insurance and are done at the expense of the patient. Alternative therapies, like complimentary therapies are meant to be done in combination with traditional therapies and not in lieu of them.
NeuroCranial Restructuring (NCR)
NeuroCranial Restructuring™is the newest and most powerful therapy in physical medicine. NCR is a cumulative treatment process involving controlled release of the connective tissue tensions -- resulting from traumas -- to unwind the body and return it towards its original design. NCR utilizes careful analysis of the body’s "proprioception" (patterns of balance) to determine the precise areas of the skull needing to be unlocked during each day’s treatment. An NCR series consists of four treatments given on consecutive days. Each case is evaluated individually for the optimal long-term outcome. Repeat treatment series are usually scheduled between one and six months apart.
This sounds very complex, but in practice it is relatively simple:
First, the patient receives customized NCR bodywork. This includes the limbs, abdomen, back and head. Next, the patient is specifically assessed to determine the cranial treatment pattern for the day. Then the patient is precisely positioned on the therapy table with the help of an assistant, including the support of pelvic wedges and sometimes a cranial pillow, for optimal treatment results and greater patient comfort. Then a small "endonasal" balloon is inserted into the nostril, briefly inflated, and quickly removed. Many patients describe the balloon pressure sensation as similar to getting water up their nose when jumping into a pool. Finally a recheck verifies that the treatment results have been achieved for that day.
"Endonasal" balloons in treatment are not new. They have been a valuable tool in practice since the early 1930s. Frequently these treatments, such as Bilateral Nasal Specific therapy, gave relief of symptoms and some long-term results. However these older treatment approaches were generalized and frequently painful.
In conclusion, NCR is different from these therapies. NCR creates incremental, cumulative, permanent structural changes to reverse the effects of the traumatic events of a body’s life. Birth trauma, accidents and falls, sports injuries, medical procedures, severe emotional and biochemical traumas are just some of the causes of musculoskeletal damage that are released with NCR.
I took Emily to have NCR done a couple of years ago to see if it would help with her seizures and also to correct her left eye that was not properly aligned. The process for this was four sessions in a row. Each session consisted of 45 - 1 hour of energy work by two different people and then the quick NCR adjustment at the end. Emily seemed to respond very well to this therapy, but it did not change her seizures like I had hoped it would. It did, however, correct her eye that was not following or properly aligned with her other eye. This was done two years ago and Emily's eye remains corrected to date.
I also had a session performed on myself. I can say that it doesn't hurt, but it is definetly uncomfortable. I could feel the facial plates shifting while balloon was being quickly inflated. It felt like I was diving way too deep into the water and the pressure in my head was building up fast. But it was all over in a matter of seconds and I saw that my face was better aligned after my four sessions.
This sounds very complex, but in practice it is relatively simple:
First, the patient receives customized NCR bodywork. This includes the limbs, abdomen, back and head. Next, the patient is specifically assessed to determine the cranial treatment pattern for the day. Then the patient is precisely positioned on the therapy table with the help of an assistant, including the support of pelvic wedges and sometimes a cranial pillow, for optimal treatment results and greater patient comfort. Then a small "endonasal" balloon is inserted into the nostril, briefly inflated, and quickly removed. Many patients describe the balloon pressure sensation as similar to getting water up their nose when jumping into a pool. Finally a recheck verifies that the treatment results have been achieved for that day.
"Endonasal" balloons in treatment are not new. They have been a valuable tool in practice since the early 1930s. Frequently these treatments, such as Bilateral Nasal Specific therapy, gave relief of symptoms and some long-term results. However these older treatment approaches were generalized and frequently painful.
In conclusion, NCR is different from these therapies. NCR creates incremental, cumulative, permanent structural changes to reverse the effects of the traumatic events of a body’s life. Birth trauma, accidents and falls, sports injuries, medical procedures, severe emotional and biochemical traumas are just some of the causes of musculoskeletal damage that are released with NCR.
I took Emily to have NCR done a couple of years ago to see if it would help with her seizures and also to correct her left eye that was not properly aligned. The process for this was four sessions in a row. Each session consisted of 45 - 1 hour of energy work by two different people and then the quick NCR adjustment at the end. Emily seemed to respond very well to this therapy, but it did not change her seizures like I had hoped it would. It did, however, correct her eye that was not following or properly aligned with her other eye. This was done two years ago and Emily's eye remains corrected to date.
I also had a session performed on myself. I can say that it doesn't hurt, but it is definetly uncomfortable. I could feel the facial plates shifting while balloon was being quickly inflated. It felt like I was diving way too deep into the water and the pressure in my head was building up fast. But it was all over in a matter of seconds and I saw that my face was better aligned after my four sessions.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT)
Emily inside the hyperbaric chamber
Two years ago I stumbled across a story about a girl name Grace who lives in Wisconsin and has a metabolic disorder. Doctors told her mom that she would not live past the age of two. Today Grace is seven years old and the inspiration for us to bring our daughter, Emily, to receive hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). So what exactly is HBOT?
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is the inhalation of 100%
medical grade oxygen at greater than normal atmospheric pressure. This is the equivalent of breathing 100% oxygen underwater from depths of 16.5 feet or more.
The benefits of oxygen supersaturation have become accepted by much of the international community for a wide range of conditions. The oxygen levels in the blood are increased up to 200%, and in the rest of the body, substantially more. The increase in oxygen helps to heal wounds, fight infections, reduce swelling and remove toxins from the body. As atmospheric pressure increases, so does the concentration levels of the oxygen.*
*taken from Life Force Therapies USA web site.
Emily suffers from idiopathic intractable multi-focal complex partial seizures. In short she has a neurological condition that causes her to have seizures everyday. At Emily's worst point she was have upwards of 1,600 clonic seizures in a day. She is currently taking five seizure medications and has the Vagus Nerve Stimulator (VNS) as well. We did not take Emily to hyperbaric therapy for her to gain better control of the seizures, but for all of the other benefits that is has on the brain and body. Hopefully after enough treatments the brain will realize that it no longer needs to seize.
I am more than happy to provide more details about HBOT if you wish to contact me directly. I just didn't want to create an extremely long Blog. However, here is a quick list of all of the benefits that Emily had after completing 144 HBOT sessions:
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) is the inhalation of 100%
medical grade oxygen at greater than normal atmospheric pressure. This is the equivalent of breathing 100% oxygen underwater from depths of 16.5 feet or more.
The benefits of oxygen supersaturation have become accepted by much of the international community for a wide range of conditions. The oxygen levels in the blood are increased up to 200%, and in the rest of the body, substantially more. The increase in oxygen helps to heal wounds, fight infections, reduce swelling and remove toxins from the body. As atmospheric pressure increases, so does the concentration levels of the oxygen.*
*taken from Life Force Therapies USA web site.
Emily suffers from idiopathic intractable multi-focal complex partial seizures. In short she has a neurological condition that causes her to have seizures everyday. At Emily's worst point she was have upwards of 1,600 clonic seizures in a day. She is currently taking five seizure medications and has the Vagus Nerve Stimulator (VNS) as well. We did not take Emily to hyperbaric therapy for her to gain better control of the seizures, but for all of the other benefits that is has on the brain and body. Hopefully after enough treatments the brain will realize that it no longer needs to seize.
I am more than happy to provide more details about HBOT if you wish to contact me directly. I just didn't want to create an extremely long Blog. However, here is a quick list of all of the benefits that Emily had after completing 144 HBOT sessions:
- Better eye contact - even with people she is not familiar with
- Much more vocalizing and new words
- More attentive
- Stronger core and head control
- The ability to watch something other than a Baby Einstein or Brainy Baby movie
- Better control while eating and drinking
- Better motor planning skills
- Improved response time to questions
- Better tracking of objects
- Willing to try new things without complaining
- Able to go on an outing of any length without a meltdown or any crying
Frequencies of Brilliance
What is Frequencies of Brilliance?
Frequencies of Brilliance is a 4th/5th dimensional work. The process is that of activating doorways by lightly touching the body or working just above the body.
These doorways are to be found in patterns on the front and back of the body.
Each doorway holds the highest aspect of the human being and is complete in itself. This means that there is a perfect potential to be accessed and activated throughout the doorways in the body. A recollection of yourself, a birthing of remembrance of your highest potential which begins to transmit and awaken through your cells so that you begin to consciously remember and experience the unlimited self. It does not work with the ego mind, rather, through the entire nervous system and brain, and the spiral in the cells and spinal fluid. New areas of the brain begin to function for the first time. You begin to recollect and connect to gifts of YOURSELF.
Physical and emotional healing takes place within the physical and emotional bodies with this process because as you access the divine aspects of you – you as your own healer begin to automatically transform the physical and emotional body.
I first took Emily to see a person who practices Frequencies of Brilliance not knowing what it was all about or how it would affect Emily. The first session consisted of the practitioner opening up the channels for Emily to receive this work. It was very interested watching the session take place as Emily would respond in various ways (laughing, crying, anger, relaxation) based on the different areas she was being worked on. However, the practitioner really wasn't even touching Emily's physical body at all. This is when I began to believe that we can be worked on in more ways than just on our physical body.
Emily has received about ten or more Frequencies sessions and each one helps her in different ways. I sometimes get an intuitive message from Emily that it is time for another session and sure enough there is always something positive that comes out of each session.
Frequencies of Brilliance is a 4th/5th dimensional work. The process is that of activating doorways by lightly touching the body or working just above the body.
These doorways are to be found in patterns on the front and back of the body.
Each doorway holds the highest aspect of the human being and is complete in itself. This means that there is a perfect potential to be accessed and activated throughout the doorways in the body. A recollection of yourself, a birthing of remembrance of your highest potential which begins to transmit and awaken through your cells so that you begin to consciously remember and experience the unlimited self. It does not work with the ego mind, rather, through the entire nervous system and brain, and the spiral in the cells and spinal fluid. New areas of the brain begin to function for the first time. You begin to recollect and connect to gifts of YOURSELF.
Physical and emotional healing takes place within the physical and emotional bodies with this process because as you access the divine aspects of you – you as your own healer begin to automatically transform the physical and emotional body.
I first took Emily to see a person who practices Frequencies of Brilliance not knowing what it was all about or how it would affect Emily. The first session consisted of the practitioner opening up the channels for Emily to receive this work. It was very interested watching the session take place as Emily would respond in various ways (laughing, crying, anger, relaxation) based on the different areas she was being worked on. However, the practitioner really wasn't even touching Emily's physical body at all. This is when I began to believe that we can be worked on in more ways than just on our physical body.
Emily has received about ten or more Frequencies sessions and each one helps her in different ways. I sometimes get an intuitive message from Emily that it is time for another session and sure enough there is always something positive that comes out of each session.
Cerebral Electrical Stimulation (AcuScope Treatment)
What is Cerebral Electrical Stimulation? Click here to find out.
We have recently tried a new treatment with our daughter Emily that I have had a hard time understanding what it is, but have seen positive results from it. This new (to us) treatment is called AcuScope and Myopulse Work. I am just going to copy and paste what the web site says this treatment is and then I will describe what we have seen change in Miss Emily......
The Acuscope and Myopulse's cybernetic I/O (Input/Output) microprocessors measures resistance across traumatized tissue and continually monitors changes while treatment is in progress. The unique waveform of the output current closely matches our body's own "micro-energies". When applied to the body, the proprietary waveform of the microcurrent accelerates tissue repair by stimulating the tissue at the cellular level. When intracellular balance is established, it improves cellular metabolism, and stimulates the autonomic nervous system. This turns on our own healing mechanisms and is an optimum environment for the body to repair itself up to 50% faster!
Effective treatment results are achieved by using manual point specific probes or unattended placement pads designed with special conductive bipolar brass alloys. These probes, along with specifically formulated coupling gels, allow the therapist to palpate, massage and release all neuromuscular lesions and unblock neurological indications while the instrument continuously monitors and regulates the microcurrent output and waveform.
The currents that these instruments provide "whispers" at the tissue to help balance it. Clients feel little to no sensation during treatment. Most chronic pain sufferers experience significant reduction of pain and increased range of motion even after the first treatment. Because the microcurrent energy helps balance the body, subsequent treatments have an accumulative effect in the healing process thus reducing rehabilitation time.
Taken directly from: http://www.biohealth.ca/
Emily has undergone about eight of these 30 - 45 minutes Acuscope treatment sessions and we are really starting to see some major positive changes in her. So far we have seen:
These are just the obvious changes that we have seen so far. We plan to continue with this treatment and do an intensive treatment session when Emily goes through her third round of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy this June - August.
I would highly recommend this treatment for anyone who has a child or knows a person with neurological challenges. It is a painless therapy and very relaxing (as I have tried it myself too) and it helps regulate the autonomic system and is also known to help your body detox.
The therapist that we are seeing for this therapy is an OT and her name is Nancy Lawton-Shirley. Her contact information is http://www.pointsofstillness.com/index.html
We have recently tried a new treatment with our daughter Emily that I have had a hard time understanding what it is, but have seen positive results from it. This new (to us) treatment is called AcuScope and Myopulse Work. I am just going to copy and paste what the web site says this treatment is and then I will describe what we have seen change in Miss Emily......
The Acuscope and Myopulse's cybernetic I/O (Input/Output) microprocessors measures resistance across traumatized tissue and continually monitors changes while treatment is in progress. The unique waveform of the output current closely matches our body's own "micro-energies". When applied to the body, the proprietary waveform of the microcurrent accelerates tissue repair by stimulating the tissue at the cellular level. When intracellular balance is established, it improves cellular metabolism, and stimulates the autonomic nervous system. This turns on our own healing mechanisms and is an optimum environment for the body to repair itself up to 50% faster!
Effective treatment results are achieved by using manual point specific probes or unattended placement pads designed with special conductive bipolar brass alloys. These probes, along with specifically formulated coupling gels, allow the therapist to palpate, massage and release all neuromuscular lesions and unblock neurological indications while the instrument continuously monitors and regulates the microcurrent output and waveform.
The currents that these instruments provide "whispers" at the tissue to help balance it. Clients feel little to no sensation during treatment. Most chronic pain sufferers experience significant reduction of pain and increased range of motion even after the first treatment. Because the microcurrent energy helps balance the body, subsequent treatments have an accumulative effect in the healing process thus reducing rehabilitation time.
Taken directly from: http://www.biohealth.ca/
Emily has undergone about eight of these 30 - 45 minutes Acuscope treatment sessions and we are really starting to see some major positive changes in her. So far we have seen:
- An improvement in her posture - she is more upright and erect while in a seated position
- An increase in her muscle tone - she appears to be doing a much better job at holding her own body weight
- Significant improvement in eye contact and the use of her eyes
- Much quicker response time with her receptive language
- More vocalizations
- More attempt at 'typical' spoken words (Emily is pretty much non-verbal with the exception of a handful of randomly spoken words)
These are just the obvious changes that we have seen so far. We plan to continue with this treatment and do an intensive treatment session when Emily goes through her third round of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy this June - August.
I would highly recommend this treatment for anyone who has a child or knows a person with neurological challenges. It is a painless therapy and very relaxing (as I have tried it myself too) and it helps regulate the autonomic system and is also known to help your body detox.
The therapist that we are seeing for this therapy is an OT and her name is Nancy Lawton-Shirley. Her contact information is http://www.pointsofstillness.com/index.html
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