Traumatic Brain Injury
Posted by Dr. Siegfried on 2009-12-09 16:14:45
Traumatic Brain Injury: A New Treatment Approach!
In a split second, a life can be changed. Loss of balance, speech, hearing, vision, coordination, reasoning, energy, outlook on life, relationships social & familial, memory, articulation. Sinusitis, migraines, concussions, depression, thinking and many more problems may affect people who suffer from traumatic brain injury – of any kind.
From birth, through childhood, adolescence,teenage, adulthood – many traumas can happen to the skull and brain, commonly referred to open or closed-head injuries. Childbirth alone has damaged many infants and subsequent brain development. Long labor, poor oxygen supply to the brain, forceps delivery, vacuum, etc. Can affect the cranium & brain causing subsequent problems.
It has been estimated that children fall an estimated 2-3000 times by the time they reach adolescence. Not to mention what may have happened in labor. Do you think you ever hit your head in any of those episodes? Or others?
Run into a corner table, fallen off the bed, down the stairs, off the bike, over the handle bars, off the swing, hit by the swing, off the sliding board, water slide, monkey bars, merry go round, hit by a baseball bat, soccer ball, basketball, bell rung in the football, broken nose, tennis racket, car accident, concussion, skiing, snowboarding, ice skating accidents? The list could go on and on.
Affects on the individual’s family, friend’s and life may be countless. Some worse than others, many not even realizing that such a fall/bump or thump meant anything, until you sit down and realize that your chronic headache, migraine, sinus, etc. may have been caused by some “minor” or major physical trauma.
In addition to the functional neurological loss(es), there may be emotional pains as well. Medication abounds for the treatment of such complaints, all of which may at best stabilize the patient; at worst, create more problems through unwanted side effects.
The medical approach to traumatic brain injuries is well documented and there is little debate as to its effectivness, most of the time. Stabilization of the traumatic brain injury patient has become a science that has saved countless lives. But the aftermath can be traumatic as well.
Functional capacity loss is not uncommon for serious brain injuries. And this is exactly where work since the 1930’s has been most effective and relatively unknown as it has not been part of standard medicine.
Nasal Specifics is a treatment, a technique, and method that has literally changed the faces, heads and lives of thousands of traumatic brain injured patients. Even those who have had “normal births”. (NasalSpecific.com).
Founded and developed in the 1930’s, it is based on the fact that the skull houses and protects the brain. The plates of the skull have normal movement allowing the brain to “move” or pulsate. They also are designed to absorb stress to the skull from blows, falls etc. When the stress from a blow or fall etc. is too great, a fracture occurs and subsequent pathology develops.
When these skull plates are jammed, compressed, fractured or altered in any way, brain function is altered due to undue pressure on the brain and a myriad of symptoms may occur. Neurological loss of function, loss of clarity of thought, headaches, sinus, vision, hearing problems etc may occur. And until that pressure, compression, or undue stress on the skull is released, the patient’s brain and nervous system is locked up, a prisoner of a force that is unrelenting in it’s effects. It’s like your body is “driving around with the brakes on”.
The individual is living life, “driving around with the brakes on”, “running on less power”, as if a few spark plugs are not firing, so to speak. They just don’t function right. You feel sluggish, unclear, willing but unable to do as you please.
I have been providing the Nasal Specific treatment for patients since 1976, having had my life changed by it. To my knowledge, the initial blow that I am aware of came as a walk-on freshman trying to make the basketball team. A low bridge foul crashed me to the ground injuring my back and dazing me from the head blow. A Rugby head injury in college left me with a broken nose, feeling like I was always in a cave, in a fog, and talking out of it to someone. That all changed with the Nasal Specific Treatment.
Fortunate to have studied with the developer of Nasal Specific technique for over 1000 hours, I have treated patients from to newborns to old age and all those in between suffering the chronic side effects of head, face,TMJ and birth process trauma. Not to mention chronic migraines, sinusitis, etc.
Nasal Specific Treatment is not a panacea, cure all, quick fix. And certainly not the only treatment of traumatic brain injury. But for the vast majority of patients treated, it has been extremely helpful. Not only offering them hope for the more normal life, but functional improvements that have not been achieved anywhere else.
Consultations with me are free.
George Siegfried, D.C.
Chiropractic Physician
6501 SW Macadam Avenue
Portland, Or. 97239
503-977-0055
www.siegfriedchiropractic.com