How Neurofeedback Helps Your Nervous System
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Neurofeedback helps your nervous system, and your nervous system helps you 🧠💫
Neurofeedback isn't just about brain training—it's a game-changer for holistic well-being. By targeting the brain directly, your entire nervous system can become more balanced. Nervous system dysregulation is commonly associated with issues related to:
Chronic Pain
Symptoms: persistent pain that lasts beyond the usual healing time
Examples: Migraines, fibromyalgia
How Neurofeedback Helps: neurofeedback can help regulate brain activity associated with pain perception, reducing the intensity and frequency of chronic pain by promoting relaxation and decreasing hypersensitivity to pain signals. Neurofeedback can also help regulate fight or flight response and hypervigilance of the nervous system leading to reduced tension and stress.
Memory
Symptoms: difficulty retaining or recalling information
Examples: forgetting past or recent events, difficulty learning new tasks or information, misplacing personal items
How Neurofeedback Helps: neurofeedback can enhance cognitive functions related to memory by optimizing brainwave patterns associated with attention, memory consolidation, memory retrieval, and stress management which can lead to improved retention and recall, as well as improved mindfulness
Executive Functioning
Symptoms: challenges with planning, organizing, problem-solving, time management, and emotion regulation
Examples: difficulty with decision making, impulsivity, procrastination, emotional outbursts
How Neurofeedback Helps: neurofeedback training targets brain regions and activity associated with executive functions, helping to regulate neural activity and improve cognitive flexibility and impulse control
Trauma Symptoms: emotional distress, intrusive memories, hyper-vigilance, avoidance bahaviours, difficulty in regulating emotions
Examples: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), childhood trauma, emotional abuse
How Neurofeedback Helps: neurofeedback can aid in trauma recovery by promoting regulation of the autonomic nervous system to reduce hyper-arousal and enhance emotional regulation, leading to decreased reactivity and improved overall wellbeing
Sleep
Symptoms: difficulty falling asleep, difficulty staying asleep, not feeling restored upon awakening, daytime fatigue
Examples: Insomnia, anxiety, sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome
How Neurofeedback Helps: neurofeedback targets brainwave patterns associated with sleep regulation to promote relaxation and optimize sleep architecture, leading to improved sleep quality, duration, and daytime alertness.
Head Injury Symptoms: cognitive impairments, headaches, dizziness, mood disturbances, sensory sensitivity
Examples: concussion, traumatic brain injury (TBI), whiplash
How Neurofeedback Helps: neurofeedback therapy can aid in the rehabilitation of brain function post-head injury by promoting neuroplasticity and optimizing brainwave patterns that assist in symptom management and overall healing
