What is a Functional Neurology?
Functional Neurology is non-drug, non surgical care for those with neurologically based health problems. There are many conditions people suffer from that are in this broad category:
- Learning and Attention Disorders
- Headaches
- Vertigo
- Pain syndromes
- Developmental disorders
- Nerve injury
- Spinal cord injury
- Head injury or Stroke
- Movement disorders
These are just a few. People with all of these concerns and more have been helped by Functional Neurology. This specialty certainly cannot offerr a cure for all who present with these problems, but nearly all do improve – some profoundly.
What does Functional Neurology involve?
A history is taken; this includes your current concerns, past health, lifestyle, job, school and family. Next a thorough neurologic exam is performed. The aim of this is to test as many areas of the nervous system as possible. The doctor wants to know if:
- An area is working or not
- It is stable, unstable or sluggish
- It can be improved by using more healthy areas
- It can be used to stimulate areas needing improvement
This is followed by therapeutical trial. This means a possible treatment is used, and then you are retested immediately to see if it will work.
What are the types of treatment?
Nerve cells need fuel and stimulation to thrive. Treatment is aimed at providing these; it includes activities that have been shown either by scientific research, past case study, or immediate pre and post testing to activate nerve cells. This may include:
- Specific adjustments to joints
- Light, sound, smell and touch
- Balance activities
- Breathing exercises
- Nutritional modification
- Physical exercises
- Eye exercises
- Cognitive exercises
Care is very safe, closely monitored and painless.
See this video that demonstrates Functional Neurology.
