Saving Your Brain – Brain Training Centers

Saving Your Brain is a state-of-the-art facility that offers non-drug programs providing viable solutions for almost any neurodevelopmental, behavioral, academic, psychological, or mental health issue. Currently, we are seeing people from age 2 to 88 and every age group in between. Some of our younger school-age children and young adults we help have been diagnosed with conditions such as ADHD, Dyslexia, Social Anxiety, OCD, ODD, and Autism Spectrum. We help children and adults who have been diagnosed with anxiety and depression. We work with people who have auto-immune issues. We help people who have had traumatic brain injuries or strokes. We also help aging adults improve their memory and balance.

All of the above conditions fall under the heading of “Functional Disconnection Syndrome”. There is no pathology in the brain; there is just a functional imbalance between the two hemispheres. We have found there are several common features in all the conditions mentioned earlier. There are some commonalities found in every significant academic, behavioral, psychological, or mental health issue. They are the following: retained primitive reflexes, a weakness in one or more of the three major sensory systems that develop and grow the brain – the postural/balance system, the vestibular system, or the oculomotor system, a weakness in either the left or right cerebellum, and a weakness in the opposite hemisphere. The retained primitive reflexes are associated with a hard-wired negative neurobehavior. This can make us a bit “quirky”. Integrating the primitive reflexes makes us less “quirky”.

Correcting these imbalances/weaknesses changes the brain’s functions, and unwanted symptoms markedly reduce or go away. The corrections occur by having the person do a sensory/motor activity repetitively and frequently while being stimulated by vibration, electrical stimulation, specific sounds, specific smells, and cold laser.

Our brains are divided into some 52 Brodmann areas, named after Dr. Brodmann, who mapped them out over 115 years ago. Each area controls certain brain functions, and most of these areas connect to other Brodmann areas, forming networks. The network on one side of the brain could be like a 6-lane highway, but the corresponding network on the opposite side of the brain may be like a farm road. This imbalance between the hemispheres produces symptoms that we label as things like inattention, poor focus, impulsivity, and anxiousness. If we do a specific sensory/motor activity (an activity that involves us seeing something, hearing something, or feeling something and then reacting to it) – for example, like keeping time with our hand or foot to the sound of a cowbell – when it is coupled with sensory inputs of vibration, light, and electrical stimulation on one side of the body, it creates neuroplastic changes in the networks on the opposite side of the brain. Over time, as this sensory/motor activity is repeated, the changes become “sticky”, meaning they stick and are now permanent. This is how neuroplasticity in the brain works. Neuroplasticity is the creation of new pathways or expansion of existing pathways.

Think about going to the gym to work out. There are stations for your chest, stations for your back, stations for your legs, stations for your arms, and stations for cardiovascular fitness. When your muscles are fairly balanced, you can use a barbell for things like bench press or curls. What happens if you are in an accident and you break one arm, and it was in a cast for 8 weeks? You could not use the barbell to lift weights like before because the casted arm is too weak. You would have to build the weaker arm up using dumbbells or pulleys until it got stronger. Then you could use the barbell again.

At Saving Your Brain, we have different stations for working different networks in your brain. We intentionally work only the weaker side to help it “catch up” to the stronger side.

How well does it work? It works great! People are amazed by the changes. Please visit our website for more information and view our many testimonials. We are located on Fletcher across from USF.

Saving Your Brain was founded by Kelly Miller, NMD, who has a background in Chiropractic, Acupuncture, Naturopathy, and post-graduate studies in Functional Medicine, Neurodevelopmental Brain, and Neurofeedback. His 44 years of experience assessing and treating over 16,000 patients make him the ideal “Brain Health Coach”.

Saving Your Brain

3500 East Fletcher, Suite 120,
Tampa, Florida 33613
816-210-6913
www.savingyourbrain.com
info@savingyourbrain.com