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Is Your Child Strugglingwith ADHD?Brain Balance Provides anInnovative Solution
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Brain Balance is helping
children with ADHD achieveamazing results.
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Fincher says medication helped some, but
Beau continued to struggle, and his behav-
ior was aecting the whole amily. Our
daughter, 11, told us she couldnt take it
anymorehe was increasingly unmanage-
able and he was making her miserable. We
heard about Brain Balance and went to aseminar about a year ago to fnd out more.
I am naturally skeptical and rugal, but
ater hearing about the programs amaz-
ing results, we decided we had to give it a
try. We made helping Beau get better our
number-one priority.
It wasnt easy at frst, Fincher admits. The
frst thing we discovered is that Beau has
severe ood allergiesgluten, wheat, dairy
and eggs. We had to learn how to shop
and rethink the way we eat. And Beau was
reluctant to go to his sessions or the frst
ew weeks, but then he bought into it and
looked orward to them. Within nine to ten
weeks, we saw a dramatic improvement.
His teachers remarked at how mature he
was acting and how much hed changed. He
went rom being a behavior problem to get-ting all As and Ss in conduct. He went rom
being a year behind grade level to just shy o
grade level. Weve drastically decreased his
medication, and we think hell be ready to
move out o IEP entirely and into a regular
classroom by Christmas.
When I met Beau last year, I knew that
we could help him, afrms Dr. Peter Scire,
executive director o the local Brain Bal-
ance Centers. He was struggling with the
classic symptoms o ADHDexcessive
distractibility, restlessness, impulsive
ness, rageand our program is designe
to address the underlying cause or thes
symptoms while medications are ormu
lated to treat the symptoms. The gre
majority o children graduating rom
our program are on less medication ocompletely o their medication. I kne
that with the right assessment we coul
develop an individual plan or him tha
would be successul.
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dramatic improvement. His teachers
remarked at how mature he was acting and
how much hed changed.
-Lee Fincher, ather o Beau Fincher
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We now know that the most accuratediagnosis or children like Beau and
children oten diagnosed with autism,
Aspergers, Tourettes, ADHD, dyslexia and
other learning disabilities is actuallyFunc-
tional Disconnection Syndrome or FDS,
explainsScire, a board-eligible chiroprac-
tic neurologist. The latest unctional MRI
brain research shows that in FDS there is a
unctional disconnection between the two
hemispheres o the brain. The hemispheres
o the brain are essentially out o synch.
One hemisphere processes inormation ata slower speed, like dial-up and the other
hemisphere is processing at DSL speed,
he explains.
First we determine i a child exhibit-
ing abnormal emotional, social, physical
and academic symptoms has FDS. Ater
we determine which hemisphere is unc-
tioning abnormally, we design a speciic
program integrating physical (sensory
and motor) activities, cognitive exercise
and supportive nutritional initiative
or each child. Scire says. We literal
change the brain through exercising th
circuits and retraining the hemisphere
to communicate eectively. The brain
designed to be in balance, so once yo
strengthen the weaker hemisphere, th
negative symptoms disappear. Werpleased with Beaus progress. Hes don
quite well and is on a dierent path now
He knows that he is capable o learnin
and controlling his impulses and tha
i he works, he will succeed. Weve see
hundreds o success stories like his.
Whats the best part? The peace th
Brain Balance has brought our ami
is unbelievable, says Fincher. He is
dierent kidone o the most con
dent kids youll ever meetand wergrateul that he is now able to live up t
his potential.
For more information, go
www.brainbalancega.com or call th
Roswell location (770.650.8010
Suwanee (770.614.4790) or Peachtre
City (770.631.3033).
Photography by Jack Tuszynski
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