LENS Therapy offers speedy biofeedback

By Peter May

I have been practicing chiropractic since 1986. While I remain amazed by the elegant simplicity and powerful healing effects of a chiropractic adjustment in improving body structure and function, I am in awe of the profound and quickly-realized, life-changing health effects achieved from optimizing brain function with LENS, or Low Energy Neurofeedback System.

Unlike traditional biofeedback in which you have to take time to actively train to regulate your brainwaves, LENS is passive, and the results are fast. All you do is sit there. For a fraction of a second, a tiny and imperceptible electromagnetic signal (1/1,000 of what surrounds your cell phone) is delivered. Your brain interacts with the signal on its own and self-rectifies. You don’t do, feel, or take anything. Amazingly, many people notice significant changes within four visits.
LENS acts like a catalyst that activates the brain’s own capacity for self-regulation, to restore optimal brain function.

Neuroscientists believe that the brain’s defense against significant stressors and trauma creates neural gridlock. This manifests as a variety functional brain problems including anxiety, depression, insomnia, learning disabilities, fibromyalgia, migraine and more.

The LENS is so subtle that it can work around these defenses. Addressing the brain in its own electromagnetic language, LENS seems to open the way for the brain to defragment and reboot, to optimize its function.

Clearing the neural gridlock improves the flow of neural traffic, resulting in increased energy levels, improved mental clarity, focus and mood, better sleep, and a decrease in anxiety, depression, and brain-generated pain associated with fibromyalgia and migraine.

Treatment with LENS is individualized and totally patient-driven. Developing the treatment plan is a two-way feedback process, just like the system itself.

The first visit takes about 45 to 60 minutes. Intake forms and a one-on-one discussion help us determine treatment goals and our parameters and protocols for care. We then map the brain and begin treatment.

Subsequent visits take 15 to 30 minutes, in which time we discuss treatment response, make any appropriate changes in protocols, and continue to treat.

Since 1992, with over 50,000 patients treated, LENS has never created a new negative symptom, or triggered a sustained adverse response in anyone. But, it has significantly helped most of those treated, and its’ positive effects are enduring.
The average number of sessions to restore “brain homeostasis” (optimal functioning) is between 15 and 20, with most experiencing noticeable improvement in four to six sessions.

More significant problems like severe familial depression, autism, post-stroke recovery, or significant brain injury may take longer.
LENS can also help with peak performance, or enhance psychotherapy, meditation or spiritual practice.

Peter May is a Northampton chiropractor also offering nutritional counseling and other services. He can be reached at 413-664-9050, 26 Market St. Northampton.