Like myself, Bronwen Williams started her practice after experiencing trauma and injury. Her work is based on healing arts, shamanism, and yoga philosophy and her practice includes craniosacral therapy and bodywork. Here's what she had to say about the positive health effects of craniosacral therapy.
Read MoreDr. Joanna Fassl is a practitioner we really respect. She practices out of a beautiful apartment in SoMa and has several different modalities that she can draw on. In addition to being a chiropractor (she was the valedictorian of her Chiropractic Medicine class) she's an artist, musician, and yoga and pilates instructor.
Read MoreRenee Hahn's office is at 44 Gough at the Mission/Market St./Hayes Valley border. She has a doctorate in Chinese Medicine is a skilled acupuncturist and herbalist in addition to practicing craniosacral. She told me that Chinese medicine is the great love of her life. I found her style to be calm, cerebral, methodical, and deeply dedicated.
Read MoreThe second pillar in our trinity of concussion recovery is craniosacral therapy. Over and over again I hear stories of leaps of progress from craniosacral therapy. The woman who sold me my first neurofeedback machine got just as excited about craniosacral as she was about neurofeedback (she had also come to neurofeedback from a concussion).
Read MoreThere are two types of neuro-biofeedback (which is usually called neurofeedback), protocol based and dynamic. At San Francisco Neurofeedback Center we use Neuroptimal, which is dynamic neurofeedback. Dynamic neurofeedback does not try to "downtrain" or "uptrain" your brain into any particular frequency. Instead, it reads where your brain currently is and lets your brain make gradual changes back to its normal state. Dynamic neurofeedback has the benefit of being condition agnostic.
Read MoreThere are three therapies that come up over and over again as successful in helping people recover from head trauma.
1) Neurofeedback. It's gentle, it's straightforward, and you can do it by yourself at home. I'll dedicate the next post to why it's become so popular. In San Francisco it seems like every other person now knows what neurofeedback is. Exciting times.
Read MoreAs I noted in the last post, while I don't believe that your MD has the answers to accelerate your recovery from a concussion, there are a lot of good things that she will tell you to do. In this post I will talk about the advice that most MDs give and tools you can use to follow their directions.
Read MoreI'm not a medical practitioner. So I can only speak from my own recovery experience and my experience witnessing people close to me recover from concussions. What does neurofeedback have to do with this? We'll find out!
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