The Riverlakes Wellness neurofeedback center is unlocking your brain's potential to treat a variety of problems and in some cases getting rid of the problem all together. The center opened it's doors just last year and his since built a reputation for total wellness in the patient.
This neurofeedback center offically opened just last week and is already drawing rave reviews from clients in and outside of kern county. Linda hamilton suffers from severe migraines, five or six times a month. For over 16 years she's used medicine to try and wipe out or numb the pain until she started neurofeedback sessions. "I haven't had a migraine, once I can feel a migraine starting I would take an imitrix now it hits a roadblock and makes a u turn, " Hamilton said.
That road block is the result of neurofeedback. sensors are attached to her scalp in a non invasive painless application that does not involve any voltage or current an exercise for the brain that allows migraine sufferers to change their own brain waves to gain better control of their pain. Dr. James Seay is the director of operations at Riverlakes Wellness center, "we can see the electroconductivity issues and essentially all we are doing is giving the brain a mirror and letting the brain see it's own function and dysfunction as it realizes what is good and bad, it wants to do more of the good and less of the bad. After a series of sessions we can actually get some brain permanence where the brain says this is what I should be doing."
For example as Linda watches a video game with a car moving through the tube, her brain is actually pushing the car towards the diamond, her technician then monitors and records the brain waves. The way it works on the scientific level it reads the brain waves and since the brain wants to function on it's own it starts helping the neurons fire in a way to make the right connections and once the brain starts firing those neurons and making those connections on it's own it doesn't need the medication to help do it and it has permanent effects.
Neurofeedback technician Kim Smith actually introduced the program to Bakersfield after experiencing her own chronic back pain issues and received the treatment at UCLA Medical Center. While much is yet to be learned about neurofeedback it is emerging as an effective tool to treat problems from adhd to depression, sleep disorders and epilepsy.
If you are interested in learning more about neurofeedback and whether it will work for you, a free seminar will be held at the Riverlakes Wellness Center on October 30th at 7pm for more information or to rsvp call 588-5808.
