The horror fest of concussion recovery, a job nobody wants, contains dramatic improvements. As I continue the treatment protocol I outlined in my last post, my reading is almost back to normal. I doubled my reading time on Sunday to 16 minutes without experiencing dizziness or nausea. Unfortunately, a concentration headache comes on with reading…
Category: Treatment
Treatment of brain injury that aims to heal neurons and restore functionality, cognitive skills, emotions, heart and temperature regulation, etc.
What To Do When Concussed Again?
Sound waves lift brain, carry it forward in its bath of fluid like it’s a wave itself. No pain. Eerie feeling. Concussed again. But nothing like the car crash, though I’ve been resisting that PTSD flashback for about a week since this out-of-the-blue incident. Guess I now know why I felt such a push to…
Harnessing The Sun’s Red Rays For Your Health
Meditech Rehabilitation Laser Centre
The Clinic Q&A Five is designed to help people discern what clinics will suit their brain injury needs best. Read what Meditech Rehabilitation Laser Centre will provide you in your recovery. I ask five questions; the clinic provides answers, links, images, video, and contact info. You get to compare and decide. This is a new feature,…
Graduating to New Reading Level
The book I finished reading yesterday is the last one I time and recorded to the minute. I’m graduating to the next level of returning to pre-injury reading when it was as part of my life as breakfast, lunch, and dinner are. From today’s book on, I’m scheduling my reading sessions as a 15 to…
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…
The Clinic Q&A Five: Shift Concussion Management
The Clinic Q&A Five is designed to help people discern what clinics will suit their brain injury needs best. Read what Shift Concussion Management will provide you in your recovery. I ask five questions; the clinic provides answers, links, images, video, and contact info. You get to compare and decide. This is a new feature,…
Gamma Update and Changes
I’ve been using gamma brainwave audiovisual entrainment since April with the Mind Alive’s DAVID Delight Pro device. On May 18, I switched it up to gamma 38-42Hz on Mondays and Fridays and SMR/gamma on Tuesdays and Thursdays and maintained the effect. My writing and photography work went down because I began using my cognitive energy…
Appearing on Lindamood-Bell Radio
I’m pleased to tell you all I was interviewed for Lindamood-Bell radio, a weekly podcast about personal experiences with their courses, research on their methods, and education. Being a student with a brain injury, I wasn’t sure I’d regain my pre-concussion book reading. Lindamood-Bell not only evaluated me fully, unlike the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, they…