Dr. Gregory Kramer

What is BBT?

Brain Based Therapy (BBT) is an amazingly powerful, all natural healing technique used to restore people to their optimum state of health. How does the brain work?

Your brain controls and coordinates all functions of the body (Grey’s Anatomy). When functioning normally, the cerebellum, which is the back bottom part of your cranium, sends messages or “fires” to the brain (right and left hemisphere) which in turn “fires” to the brain stem (mesencephalon, pons, and medulla). This is called “The Brain Loop”.

Your health, well-being, physical vitality, mental clarity, and emotional stability directly correlate with the proper function of “The Brain Loop”. When functioning correctly, the cerebellum receives adequate input, sending normal input to the brains frontal lobes, which sends sufficient input to the lower brainstem, keeping the mesencephalon from over-firing.

What goes wrong?

Stress – Physical Stress, Chemical Stress, and Emotional Stress can adversely affect this “brain loop”. Stress is not necessarily a bad thing. However, if it is constant, pervasive, and never-ending stress to our body, then it is detrimental. Today, more than ever, our challenge is in keeping all forms of stress from having a major impact on our health and well-being.

If one side of the cerebellum is not receiving enough nerve input, it cannot send sufficient nerve input to the frontal lobe, which cannot send enough input to the lower brainstem to keep the mesencephalon from over-firing. What is the deal with the mesencephalon?

The mesencephalon (a.k.a. upper brain stem, a.k.a. midbrain, a.k.a. cerebral peduncle) normally is inhibited by the brain. In other words, when the “brain loop” is intact, the mesencephalon is turned off (or on low).

However, once stress interrupts the “brain loop”, the mesencephalon is left unchecked. The brain becomes stuck in a sympathetic (fight or flight) response.
A mesencephalon that is not firing properly causes symptoms associated with insomnia and fatigue, chronic pain, migraines, fibromyalgia, low immunity, and more.

What about the cerebellum?

Another key part to the “brain loop” is the cerebellum. This is the back bottom part of your brain that controls your balance and coordination, spinal postural muscles, and terminates eye movements. When one side of your cerebellum is not firing properly, it can lead to a host of common ailments.

A misfiring cerebellum will cause one side of the postural muscles to be in constant spasm. This one-sided muscle spasm will cause imbalances in the spinal bones. Additionally, individual vertebrae will lock up and be restricted in their normal movement. Consequently, chronic back and neck pain, spinal degeneration, arthritis, disc hernias, and sciatica may develop. Once pathologies are ruled out, chronic dizziness and balance disorders are usually the result of cerebella dysfunction.

How do you fix the brain?

A thorough BBT neurological examination will reveal which aspect of your brain is not firing properly. Since once side of the body is controlled by the opposite side of the brain (example: right brain controls the left side of the body), most treatments are given on one side of the body to stimulate the opposite hemisphere of the brain.

A safe, gentle, hands-on, dynamic integration process is used. The process includes both traditional chiropractic instruments and/or adjustments, visual, auditory, and olfactory stimulation, heat, eye movements and exercises, along with other modalities to reconnect and restore proper brain function. What health problems respond to Brain Based Neurological Therapy?

Please understand that BBT is not a specific treatment for any disease, illness, or disorder. Our expertise lies in naturally and holistically re-wiring your brain and helping you to restore and keep brain imbalances to a minimum so your body can heal.

BBT has helped many people to acquire relief from chronic neck and back pain, headaches, tremor disorders, insomnia, fibromyalgia, vertigo, restless leg syndrome, spinal stenosis, migraines, numbness, low immunity, post surgery, brain injuries, spinal cord trauma, and many more health conditions and injuries related to the spine.

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