Emerge Natural Health Provides Traumatic Brain Injury Care

5.3 million Americans (just over 2% of the population) currently live with a disability resulting from a traumatic brain injury or TBI. About 75% of TBI’s that occur each year are concussions or other forms of mild TBI. A brain injury is unpredictable in its consequences and can affect who we are, the way we think, act, and feel. It can change everything about us in a matter of seconds. The effects of a brain injury are complex and vary greatly from person to person. No two brain injuries are exactly the same.

The effects of a brain injury depend on such factors as cause, location, and severity. Many issues may arise from a traumatic brain injury or a concussion:

  • Forgetting appointments
  • Making bad business & personal choices
  • Fatigue
  • Mood problems
  • Difficulty in relating to others
  • Difficulty with attention, concentration, memory, planning and/or decision making
  • Difficulty or slowness with speaking, reading, or thinking
  • Easily confused or gets lost often
  • Lack of motivation
  • Loss of libido
  • Loss of inhibitions
  • Anxiety/depression
  • PTSD
  • Change in sleep habits
  • Change in appetite – over or under eating
  • Leaky gut
  • Dizziness, loss of balance and feeling light-headed
  • Loss of sense of taste or smell
  • Exaggerated sense of smell
  • Ringing in the ears
  • Maladaptive stress syndrome

The wide range of effects of a traumatic brain injury are due to the consistency of the brain, which has roughly the consistency of pudding. During an accident or impact where the skull suddenly stops, the brain keeps moving and can slam into the skull several times, back and forth. The pudding like consistency of the brain also allows the brain to twist during an impact. The back and forth, twisting motion of the brain during impact causes a type of cellular damage all over the brain, called diffuse axonal injury or DAI. The resulting damage due to DAI causes paralyzed, dysfunctional brain cells and increased vulnerability to further injury. After one TBI, the risk of incurring a second injury is three times greater; after a second TBI, the risk for a third injury is eight times greater.

Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury

The best way to treat a TBI is prevention. Taking magnesium, fish oil, B vitamins and zinc can help the brain recover much faster after a mild/moderate TBI or concussion. These same supplements and a few more may also help in recovery from a TBI.

The Low Energy Neurofeedback System or LENS is another treatment that has shown good results in treating the symptoms of a TBI.