Neurofeedback in Colorado
A safe, effective treatment, neurofeedback restores your body to its natural balance
Your brain is adaptive and can correct itself and self-regulate with neurofeedback training. If you’re suffering from pain, anxiety, or certain illnesses, neurofeedback may be the answer for you.
Neurofeedback is a noninvasive, intrinsic learning process that trains your brain to restore its normal function by normalizing your brain’s electrical activity. We offer our neurofeedback training program at our Denver (Lakewood) office, under the supervision of Dr. Penny Montgomery, a pioneer and author in the field of neurofeedback.
Click the following topics to learn more about neurofeedback:
- How does neurofeedback work?
- Does neurofeedback hurt?
- How do I train my brain during neurofeedback?
- Can neurofeedback help my pain or illness?
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How does neurofeedback work?
The brain “whispers” messages to the body through electrical impulses transmitted within the central nervous system. Sometimes these electrical impulses (brain-waves) are disturbed, creating abnormal rhythmic patterns. When your brain continues to fire in these abnormal patterns, habitual firing patterns create symptoms in your body. Since the body naturally desires balance, neurofeedback merely helps the brain bring itself and the body back into balance.
With the neurofeedback equipment we use at our Denver (Lakewood) office, electrical activity from the brain is amplified and projected on a computer screen as it occurs. This real-time feedback enables immediate and precise interpretation of your brain-wave patterns.
Our neurofeedback coaches use Neuropathways™, the all-digital, real-time neurofeedback training program developed by Dr. Margaret E. Ayers. The electrical activity is recorded using scalp sensors, and advanced computer software allows us to see your brain-wave activity on a computer screen.
Does neurofeedback hurt?
To see your brain-wave patterns on the computer screen, we connect sensors, using conductive paste, to specific sites on your scalp. Sensors are placed strategically to record specific areas of your brain. Nothing goes into the body. The process is non-invasive and not painful at all.
How do I train my brain during neurofeedback?
Neurofeedback is one of the most compelling examples of the body’s ability to self-regulate and bring itself back into balance. It allows you to participate in your own health.
The high-speed neurofeedback equipment displays electrical patterns produced by your brain. Two of the most significant patterns are beta (fast) waves and theta (slow waves that ranges from 4 to 7 cycles a second). Generally, your goal is to inhibit excessive theta wave patterns and lower their amplitude. The computer helps you recognize normal patterns by producing audio and visual reinforcement when they occur. Your brain makes the appropriate corrections immediately.
The results of the training are permanent unless future injury occurs. Once your brain’s normal patterns have been restored, neurofeedback training is no longer necessary. The effects of neurofeedback training are like training wheels on a bicycle. Once you learn to balance by yourself, the training wheels are no longer needed.
Can neurofeedback help my symptoms?
Neurofeedback helps to improve functions such as concentration, short-term memory, speech, motor skills, sleep, energy level, and emotional balance. This learning process can improve function significantly when the following diagnoses are present:
- addictions
- ADHD
- aggressive behavior
- anxiety
- Asperger’s syndrome
- depression
- dyslexia
- fibromyalgia
- immune dysfunction
- migraine headaches
- pain
- Parkinson’s disease
- peak performance
- post-stroke symptoms
- seizures
- traumatic brain injury (concussions)
Dan helped by neurofeedback
Notes of gratitude for Dr. Montgomery and neurofeedback
“I struggled with an uncommon sleep disorder after a 25 foot fall from a roof. Central sleep apnea is a disorder in which my breathing repeatedly stops and starts nearly 60 times each hour during sleep. Central sleep apnea, unlike obstructive sleep apnea, occurs because the brain doesn’t send proper signals to the muscles that control breathing. Besides not getting a restful sleep, the limited oxygen level is unhealthy for brain cell structure.
A sleep study at altitude in Summit County confirmed my need to continue with the use of a VPAP device to assist sleep breathing which I had used for 18 months during sleep. The nightly use of the machine was becoming uncomfortably difficult and inconvenient with travel, and I looked for an alternative treatment. After an initial evaluation by Dr. Penny Montgomery of the Healing Unleashed, LLC homeopathic medical services, I started a series in retraining my brain using the Neurofeedback system. Ten EEG biofeedback trainings directed to different brain function areas, and specifically my brain stem as it was suspect from the major impact from the fall, created an amazing result. Oxygen saturation tests during sleep at both Denver and Winter Park altitudes, confirmed by my sleep disorder doctor, were satisfactory and I was able to discontinue the use of the VPAP machine. The neurofeedback training had returned my brain activity to normal nightly sleep breathing without the aid of a machine. What a great blessing! — Dale Brown, Denver, CO, August 2011
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Call us at (303) 986-0492 to set your appointment at our Denver (Lakewood) Colorado office.