Rehab has often been boring in the past. And when something’s boring, you’re less motivated to do it.
But what if rehab felt more like a trip to Timezone? What if it involved the latest digital games to stimulate your senses and get your brain firing on all cylinders?
That’s the kind of therapy we provide.
Our toolkit includes many evidence-based therapies designed to stimulate the chosen area of the brain. Often, we’ll use several of these at once (co-activation) giving your brain the maximum opportunity to form new neural pathways.
Integration of retained / returned primitive reflexes (these usually disappear in the first year of life but persist in some people).
Video games designed to target and stimulate weak areas of the brain with specific graphical movements (hand-eye coordination), colours and sound frequencies
Photo biomodulation to stimulate different areas of the brain with matching brain wave frequency and intensity.
Games designed to improve neuro-timing for motor control, cognition and performance.
Therapy using eye movements
To assess and train balance, coordination, motor control and planning
Specific sound frequency to stimulate targeted auditory cortex
Transcranial direct current to stimulate the weak hemisphere of the brain and dampen the hyperactive hemisphere.
Uses specific colour lenses to stimulate the targeted visual cortex
TENS, vibration, olfaction (smell)
Brain-based exercises designed to improve brain and neuro function
The human brain really is a masterpiece. It enables you to be both rational and emotional, logical and creative, thoughtful and impulsive.
And it never stops forming. Learning a new skill, like skateboarding or playing the guitar, changes the structure of your brain.
At first, a new pathway might be a bit narrow and overgrown like an animal track in the bush. But, the more you practise your new skill, the bigger and better that neural pathway becomes until it’s a wide, well-paved road you can easily travel down.
This is called neuroplasticity and it’s the foundation for our therapy model. When given the right stimulation, your brain’s nerve cells can expand and communicate with new nerve cells. Our therapy program involves a mix of activities designed to provide that stimulation.
We aim to identify areas of the brain that are underdeveloped, under-regulated or under-integrated then provide specific, targeted activities to improve function.
Neurofit Brain Centre’s staff are trained in The Melillo MethodTM.
Based on those findings, we develop a personalised therapy program that will stimulate any injured or underdeveloped areas of your brain.
You follow this intensive program for an agreed period (often 12 weeks but sometimes longer). It will include weekly in-clinic sessions reinforced by daily practice at home
Discharge or continue
After the initial course of treatment is completed, we conduct the same assessments again and compare your before and after results to see how you have progressed. From there, we can
recommend next steps, which may include a maintenance program or another course of therapy.
Why do we do so many things at once? This is called co-activation and we do it to maximise the beneficial effects of therapy.
We’re bombarding the weaker side of the brain with all the stimulation that it needs to grow stronger. Over time, it will start to increase its metabolic demand (for blood flow and oxygen) and gain greater equality with the stronger side of the brain.
After 12 weeks, we would re-assess Elliott to see whether stimulating his right brain with lights, sounds, colours, smells and movement has led to better brain balance and whether he and his family have noticed any changes in his daily life.
