Brain Therapies - Learn More...

1.Let's Get Started

We begin our program by finding out more detailed information about you or your child. This involves gathering a thorough history both in person and via email. We will also email you specific brain questionnaires:

1.Primitive Reflexes questionnaires

2.Brain profiling questionnaires

COGNITIVE STYLE ASSESSMENT to see if you have a natural tendency to be more dominant with your right or left brain. This is your natural tendency not your learned behaviours.

COGNITIVE CHECKLIST to see if you have a right or left-brain motor, sensory, emotional, behavioural, academic, immune or autonomic delay.

We can space out this process, so you don’t get overwhelmed.

2.Examinations

Let's start by booking an initial consultation if you haven't seen us before or a 30-minute session for existing clients. Dr Coby will assess for any Retained Primitive Reflexes which involves running you or your child through certain movements to see if further exercise intervention is required.

For example, this may look like standing like a zombie with your arms out in front of you and getting your head turned to both sides on repeat.

If there are retained primitive reflexes, you will be given exercises to do at home to integrate them.

HEMISPHERIC FACIAL EXAM

In a later session Dr Coby will look for any imbalances with your eye position, pupils, head tilt, shoulder position, face muscles, soft palate, tongue deviation, etc.

Any imbalances may be a factor in suggesting a brain hemispheric imbalance.

OTHER POSSIBLE TESTS:

Vestibular balance

Auditory & Visual

Core strength check

Large muscle strength

Proprioception

Cerebellar

Tactile function

Smell (olfactory)

3.What are Primitive Reflexes?

Primitive reflexes are the reactive actions that a newborn baby uses to survive in the beginning stages of life.

They are involuntary motor responses originating in the brainstem. These reflexes are called ‘primitive’ because they are precursor reflex movements to our more complex adult movement patterns. They form the building blocks from which all other movement is made.

PRIMITIVE REFLEXES DEVELOP WHILE IN THE WOMB TO ASSIST WITH THE BIRTHING PROCESS. WHEN A BABY IS BORN, THESE REFLEXES ALLOW FOR BASIC INSTINCTIVE MOVEMENT LIKE MOVING OF THE HEAD TO SUCKLE A MOTHER'S BREAST.

4.Retained Primitive Reflexes

As babies grow the brain gets larger and more connections form.

A higher level of brain functions are then ready to develop, so the primitive reflexes are no longer necessary.

At this point the brain inhibits the primitive reflexes and allows for more complex motor reflexes to emerge (postural reflexes). This process is called integration of primitive reflexes.

BABIES ARE SUPPOSED TO OUTGROW THEIR PRIMITIVE REFLEXES BY THE END OF THEIR FIRST YEAR OF LIFE.

Sometimes the primitive reflexes don’t integrate properly, which can create a nervous system that will react inappropriately.

This can adversely affect a child’s normal development and can restrict them from reaching their full potential

Retained primitive reflexes can lead to problems with co-ordination, balance, the sensory system, fine motor skills, sleep, immunity, energy levels, impulse control, concentration and all levels of social, emotional and academic learning.

Primitive reflexes can fail to integrate properly due to birth trauma, caesarian delivery, falls, traumas, lack of tummy time, delayed or skipped crawling, head trauma, chronic ear infections, spinal misalignment delayed and brain maturation.

5.Functional Disconnect Syndrome

According to Dr Melillo, Functional Disconnect Syndrome (FDS) is a new discovery in brain science. More recent research has shown that when the two sides of the brain don’t mature at the same rate, the electrical impulses between the two sides can get out of balance and interfere with communication.

This may cause many behavioural, social and learning difficulties.

In order for the brain to function normally, the activities in the right and left brain hemispheres must work in harmony much like a concert orchestra. Clinical research in the past fifteen years has shown that there are three types of disconnect that can result in different symptoms:

Diagnoses that fit with right brain deficiencies include:

ADHD, Autism, Oppositional Defiance Disorder, Developmental

Co-ordination Disorder (Dyspraxia), Non-verbal Learning Disability,

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Pervasive Developmental Disorder and Tourette’s Syndrome. Right brain stimulation may also be supportive for schizophrenia and bipolar 1 (manic state).

Diagnoses that fit with left brain deficiencies include:

Learning disorder maths (Dyscalculia), Central Auditory Processing Disorder, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia (movement and co-ordination problems), Dysgraphia (poor handwriting), Learning disorders, Language disorders, ADHD - inattentive type, Processing Disorders - auditory, visual, tactile and smell, Selective Mutism and Reading Disorder. Parkinsons, depression, stuttering, poor memory & bipolar 2 (hypomania) may also be associated with left brain deficiencies. It may also be helpful for PTSD & panic attacks to stimulate the left brain to create slight dissociation.

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6.Is your brain out of sync?

Our history taking, brain profiling and examinations will determine if yours or your child's brain is out of sync (Functional Disconnect Syndrome). We can then instruct you on how to stimulate the weaker side of your brain.

Children or adults with FDS may present with many symptoms, which differ only in terms of the side of the brain that is out of balance and the severity of the imbalance. They may even be gifted due to the high stimulation of one side or area of the brain.

MELILLO PRACTITIONERS MAY USE THESE DEVICES:

7.Brain Development Blueprint

There is a specific and important order in which brain neurodevelopment occurs. When this sequence is impaired an unfortunate domino effect on higher level functions and behaviours is kicked off. We all want our kid’s brains to be built in the best possible way, with solid foundations that build the next stage of brain development. This is why monitoring children’s milestones is so important, as you can detect early on if there are any delays in brain development and have early intervention therapies.

8.The Solution -
Melillo Method

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