DR. DEBORAH MURPHY
- Ojai Chiropractor
& Neurofeedback
The Natural Force
in each one of us
is the greatest force
in getting well.
Hippocrates
To Schedule Appointment
805-646-2225
WHAT IS NEUROFEEDBACK?
Neurofeedback, aka Neurotherapy, Brainwave & EEG Biofeedback, is a state-of-the-art, computer assisted form of Biofeedback brain training, using moment to moment brainwave recordings, called EEG (electroencephalogram.) Biofeedback is a process of feeding back to the body, information about its own biological processes. The basis of all forms of Biofeedback is self-correction.
Neurofeedback is natural, safe, and effective!
Neurofeedback is Exercise for the Brain
Neurofeedback is a form of biofeedback using brainwaves. Like a dancer training in front of a mirror, corrections are made in response to real-time movement and timing with the music. Neurofeedback uses the best cutting edge computer assistance to allow the brain to witness its own activity - the ebb & flow of its own timing. As the brain is given information about its own electrical timing activity, it sees the discrepancies and self-corrects.
The brain’s electrical signals are detected from little sensors placed on the scalp with a sticky paste and transmitted to a computer where they are displayed, analyzed, and projected for the trainee on a monitor as part of a video game or movie. Nothing goes into the sensors, and nothing is done to the person. The brain simply recognizes its own signal in the same way we recognize ourselves in a mirror, and begins making adjustments accordingly - easily, gently, simply, safely, with the result being a better functioning, more flexible brain - thus exercising to be a better functioning more flexible person - at our best.
A Flexible Brain Can Easily Activate or Rest
Increasing flexibility between active and quiet brain states is a benefit of Neurofeedback. When the brain is flexible, one can more easily calm into a restful state, like sleep, for repair, yet also efficiently speed up, for focused thinking, productivity, movement, and creativity. When our brain is flexible and resilient, we are happier, healthier, more fully alive, and able to utilize our full talents and potentials, to Be the person we are meant to be !
Also known as EEG or Brainwave Biofeedback, the brain safely and directly trains for long-term efficiency.
For over fifty years, Neurofeedback has been integrating the newest scientific advancements in EEG, computer technology, neuroscience, and neuropsychology, inovatively pioneering research and training for safe natural brain training, balancing, and enhancement. When we are resilient, we feel our best.
IS NEUROFEEDBACK SAFE?
YES, Neurofeedback is very safe!
Neurofeedback is FDA approved.
Side effects have never been reported by the FDA.
Side effects are rare. If a symptom arises, it will be temporary, transient, and will already be a symptom the person has previously experienced or currently experiences. Neurofeedback is safe because the brain is simply self-correcting, based on responding to being given the opportunity to witness its own activity. Nothing is being done to the brain.
The intake questions will include learning about what an individual person's nervous system does when under stress? Nervousness, poor sleep, headache? If a person has, or has had a tendency to have headaches in the past, for example, then a headache could be a possible side effect for that person, but not otherwise. If a symptom or uncomfortable sensation arises, the symptom is used as a guide to training, to resolve it quickly, which helps to guide training into a person's optimal state of comfort, where they are most relaxed, most alert, and most comfortably able to focus. We call this optimal zone the "Sweet Spot." Exercising the brain within the Sweet Spot is reinforced over a number of sessions, resulting in a more consistently comfortable, relaxed and present state.
An important common positive side-effect commonly reported is a lessening dosage amount of medications needed. Sometimes a need for a medication is eliminated. Though a lessening need for medication is a desirable side-effect, it is imperative a person makes all prescription medication adjustments safely under the supervision of their prescribing doctor. Changing or eliminating some prescription medications without supervision is sometimes dangerous or life threatening.
Chiropractors are "drugless practitioners." It is outside of their scope of practice to prescribe or manage prescription medications, thus referrals are given upon request.
Dr. Deborah Murphy - Ojai Chiropractor & Neurofeedback
111 W Topa Topa St Ste 3 Ojai, CA 93023
Important Information
Neurofeedback is considered adjunctive, ancillary, and supportive care for a person's medical, mental, or alternative health care practitioner's treatment, and is not a stand-alone treatment. While receiving Neurofeedback, always work in conjunction with an appropriate licensed medical or mental health professional, regarding diagnosis and treatment of the underlying condition.
Is your brain stuck in a rut?
The brain has habits and patterns that are helpful, and sometimes the brain will get stuck in a rut or a groove, a pattern or habit that is unhelpful. With Neurofeedback training, the brain self-corrects simply by observing the ebb & flow of the timing of its own signal, It fixes its own brainwave timing regulation, finds new pathways, and frees itself from ruts. Why ride a bicycle in the sand, for example, when there is a perfectly good bike path nearby? Certainly the brain can find an easier pathway, with so many pathways to choose from. The brain needs to exercise in new ways to find them. Neurofeedback trains the brain for flexibility, timing, and finding new pathways. When the brain becomes more resilient, we become more resilient.
Improved Self-Regulation
Treating The Person, Not The Disease
Neurofeedback, Chiropractic, Acupuncture, Naturopathy, Natural Health Care specialists, all share the goal of assisting the body's innate intelligence to heal itself, as such do not treat disease. Neurofeedback trains the brain to improve self-regulation so the body is better able to manage and self-heal. Chiropractors call this self innate healing ability 'Innate!'
Neurofeedback has been shown to be profoundly helpful for improving, remediating, and/or alleviating a wide range of conditions, and it is important to distinguish that Neurofeedback is considered a modality for assisting the nervous system to improve its function, enhance 'Innate', yet is not considered a 'treatment.' Dr. Murphy's goal is to help the body improve self-regulation, and therefore function improves, improving the system as a whole.
How Brain Timing Controls
Brain Regulation & Disregulation
If clocks throughout a train system were all set to slightly different times, the disregulated schedule could cause system-wide train delays and even disasters. To fix the train schedule, simple self-correction of the clocks is in order.
By re-regulating the brain's clocks, or timing system, Neurofeedback teaches the brain to be more flexible yet stable, more easily slowing for calmness, such as sleep or meditation, or speeding up for reading, computations and learning. Flexibility & stability of brain states allows us a wide access to our brain's best potential, including creativity, perspective and the feeling of being the Best Version of ourself!