Several months ago, one of my brain injury tweeps told some of us how she’d gotten a weighted blanket for Christmas and was sleeping snug as a bug — at last. I hadn’t heard of a weighted blanket before. She explained how she’d heard of them through her work with children with autism, and I… Continue reading Weighted Blanket: Using It with Brain Injury, PTSD, Fibromyalgia
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Fatigue: Does It Ever Go Away?
Does increasing functionality after brain injury mean no more fatigue? Fatigue is such an inadequate word to describe the unutterable weariness that comes on to a person with fibromyalgia or brain injury just because one got up in the morning. When someone who has a chronic illness or injury, particularly brain injury, fibromyalgia, or chronic… Continue reading Fatigue: Does It Ever Go Away?
Green Light for Pain
Red light. Green light. Multi-coloured eyeset for audiovisual entrainment (AVE). I tried the red light today with SMR/Beta because I’m so damn tired and very, very fed up. The last time I had red lights for AVE was in my psychologist’s office 15 years ago almost to the month. When he switched the eyesets from… Continue reading Green Light for Pain
Gamma 38 to 42Hz Audiovisual Entrainment for Brain Injury, Single Subject Study
Introduction In 2012, following my inclusion in and subsequent exit from a drug trial that increases GABA in the brain, the ADD Centre, working with me, demonstrated that brain biofeedback of 39 to 42Hz at CZ can increase gamma brainwaves and effect radical improvement in a person with brain injury. You can find the research… Continue reading Gamma 38 to 42Hz Audiovisual Entrainment for Brain Injury, Single Subject Study
First Gamma 40Hz Audiovisual Entrainment
I completed eleven sessions of SMR/gamma brainwave audiovisual entrainment on Saturday. The DAVID Delight Pro has three gamma sessions, and the Clinical Director of the ADD Centre where I’ve been receiving gamma brainwave biofeedback weekly for years, suggested the 40Hz session would be best for me. I’d decided to ease into trying gamma audiovisual entrainment… Continue reading First Gamma 40Hz Audiovisual Entrainment
Application of Visualizing and Verbalizing Begins to Improve Reading Comprehension After Brain Injury
We’ve reached the application stage! The goal when I began the Visualizing and Verbalizing program with Lindamood-Bell was to get to the point where I could read novels, neuroscience, and Philosophy of Mind. Novels because my entire life prior to my brain injury I’d read fiction, novels since I was a child. I carried a… Continue reading Application of Visualizing and Verbalizing Begins to Improve Reading Comprehension After Brain Injury
Exhaustion Remains a Reality After Improvement from Brain Injury
Last week, I treated myself to a couple of hours at the hairdresser’s, getting my hair primped while we gossiped and laughed. No Rob Ford talk though this time! To compensate for the extra energy use, I cut my usual walking distance when out and about in half, thinking I was being smart in balancing… Continue reading Exhaustion Remains a Reality After Improvement from Brain Injury
A New Protocol for the Next Phase of LORETA Neurofeedback
This week, the new protocol for my LORETA neurofeedback began. Since April, the protocol was based on the symptoms I’d listed as being at a 10, the worst ones of all my symptoms. This time, it was based on my top six symptoms, not all the ones rated at 10, and on the working memory… Continue reading A New Protocol for the Next Phase of LORETA Neurofeedback
LORETA #11: Progress Check and Review
Session 11: time to check my progress and do something a little different. The progress check comprised about ten minutes of the LORETA software simply reading my brainwaves. It's boring staring at the little green light at the bottom of the monitor for 12 minutes while reminding yourself to relax the jaw and shoulders, but… Continue reading LORETA #11: Progress Check and Review