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By: Heidi

Heidi — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:13:21 +0000

Hi Alice
Thanks for posting – I am wondering, along with asking here, you might want to ask the same question on the BodyInMind facebook page and see if you get any responses. NoiGroup also has a facebook page, and it may be that a PT will get back to you?
Heidi

By: Alice Fung

Alice Fung — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:43:29 +0000

Hi Lorimer

I am so passionate reading about pain and brain …i am wondering is there any avenue that I can get my hands “dirty” by volunteering somewhere where I could get more opportunity to learn more? (other than reading your blogs and read all the moments on the blogs and google search….)
Thanks
Alice

By: Alice Fung

Alice Fung — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:39:29 +0000

Hi PT out there
I have a client have been searching for physio who knows/ can do mirror box therapy for the recovery from a stroke. She is not able/not willing? to use her affected upper limb. When I mention to her about mirror box therapy, she lights up and asked me if I can find her a PT who can offer that. Any suggestions? Thanks a million in advance.

By: Lorimer

Lorimer — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:32:52 +0000

Sue – thanks a million for posting. This sounds very interesting indeed. Have you published it, or has anyone else? If so, where? Send me a copy? If not, you should – this is the key actually. If it has really been tested, it needs to be published. If it hasn’t, then it needs to be testd. I always say: ‘If this is as good as you think it is, then we all need to know about it. If it is not as good as you think it is, then you need to know about it’. Let us know?

By: Sue Stern

Sue Stern — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 11:58:48 +0000

We have been treating CRPS for the past 5 years with EEG Neurofeedback with excellent results. There are too many cases to describe, but one was referred to us with no bowel or bladder control,and problems with a range of other internal organs and was wheelchair bound. He recovered bowel and bladder function quite early in the piece and over 3 years progressed to crutches, walking stick and now can walk unaided and feels well. He is re-training to return to work. He may have recovered quicker but has a loose screw in his foot from failed surgery which actually caused the CRPS and each time he weightbears the screw hits a nerve. His doctors are still hesitant to take the screw out as they are worried surgery may flare up the CRPS.
The majority of CRPS sufferers whom we have treated improve in a range of areas.
Essentially we are targeting the reversal of central windup and affecting central nervous system dysfunction by raising the pain threshold. We train the brain waves to produce optimum frequencies to effect this and to inhibit other frequencies at the same time.Through this method of operant conditioning the brains learns to be able to move flexibibly between the states of arousal, and not remain ‘stuck’ in heightened arousal ( high beta waves) or stuck in low arousal ( slow wave).

EEG Neurofeedback has been very effective and I wonder why more clinics are not using this method to treat patients?

Sue Stern

By: Peggy Maas-Heinselman

Peggy Maas-Heinselman — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:55:10 +0000

Both my parents had arthritis, low back pain, from as far back as my memory goes. I remember a day when I was walking out of the house, nine years old, and ‘felt’ low back pain for the first time. In my mind I was saying, “Oh, me aching back…” the same words I heard my Dad repeat at least 20+ times a day. I had not hurt my back previously. What I think now, was I realized, in my family, to get any type of empathetic, loving attention, we were not a touchey family, I should place that stiffness and soreness in my back. Perhaps my nine year old brain had finally developed enough connective powers to come upon this realization to get my emotional needs met. I am 60 now, still have chronic low back pain. A life time of holding those muscles in a certain way doesn’t go away very easily!!

By: Lorimer

Lorimer — Mon, 31 May 2010 05:47:08 +0000

Hi John – so sorry this one got under the radar and it has taken us a while to respond. Your idea sounds nice – I don’t have much of an idea on that stuff – but I know who does – a guy called Dr Mick Thacker at King’s College London – you could easily find him via Professor Google – tell him I sent you ok?

By: Sara Lister

Sara Lister — Mon, 31 May 2010 03:34:13 +0000

Hi Lozza, I really enjoyed the lecture you presented at the NZ Physiotherapy conference here in NZ. I never knew that apin could be so funny.
Sweet as bro

By: john blackwell

john blackwell — Sun, 02 May 2010 19:16:57 +0000

Can you give me a lead…Pain and the brain as the receptor and generator through “memory” (forgive my novice nomenclature) must also apply to antigen response within the body and brain controlling skin symptoms of exczema and the itching cycle. Are there studies, readings on the brain centered control of this issue?

By: Heidi

Heidi — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:30:58 +0000

THANKS MIKE – we’d reset the feeds and hadn’t picked up that the email subscriptions wasn’t working. Glad you told us! Should be fine now.

Heidi