Brain Recovery Academy

During the last couple of months, Joe has been gaining lot's of new insights on treatment of Brain injured patients.

He spends weeks and weeks, just treating TBI patients and saw some techniques being more effective than others.

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Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) is any trauma to the brain after you are born. This includes stroke and of all types of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Even mild bumps on the head can eventually lead to a Persistent Post-Concussive Symptoms (PPCS) that will more often than not, worsen with time.

TBI symptoms are many and diffuse, often making it difficult to diagnose. Common complaints are headaches, fatigue, drowsiness, brain fog, loss of memory and concentration, mood swings, disorientation, depression, anxiety, insomnia, speech difficulties, loss of balance, dizziness, blurred vision, changes in smell and taste, sensitivity to light or sound, loss of coordination, muscle weakness and prickling sensations in the arms and legs.

Not even children are spared. How many children fall and hitting their head when attempting to walk or tumble from their bed or down a flight of stairs. The numbers are staggering. Sudden changes in eating or nursing habits, irritability, persistent crying, attention deficits, sleep disturbances, moody episodes and even depression, can all signal brain injury.

Now known as the ‘silent epidemic’, TBI is estimates to affects between 27 and 69 million worldwide every year, the number of people who continue to suffer with little hope of even partial recovery is continually growing. But there might be hope making this suffering a thing of the past.

A novel Brain Recovery Protocol, developed by Dr. Joseph Shafer, may help make TBI suffering a thing of the past.
The method uses a combination of non-invasive treatments that are proving to be extremely effective in helping many to improve or fully recover.
 

The technique is based on stimulation of certain parts of the brain using strong magnetic fields and at the same time activating specific pain point(s) on the extremities. Neurological tests are performed before and after treatment to verify the effectiveness of the treatment.

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Dr Joseph Shafer DC, CCSP, DIBAK
 

Joseph Shafer has been practicing as a Chiropractic Physician since his graduation from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1980. He graduated with honours from Louisiana State University prior to study for his doctorate. At Louisiana State he study international law, history and psychology.

Following graduation from Palmer, Dr. Shafer moved to Denmark with his then wife where they set up a private practice that became one of the largest in all of Denmark at the time. During the 10 years in Denmark, Dr. Shafer continued to study Applied Kinesiology, Nutrition and Sports Medicine. He became a Certified Sports Physician in 1989 and a Diplomate of Applied Kinesiology in 1990.

From 1986 to 1990, he was one of the official Team Denmark specialist physicians, on call to treat elite athletes. In 1989 he was an attending physician at the World Games in Karlsruhe, Germany. In 1990 he was the team physician for NISSAN PERFORMANCE at LeMans, France. This was followed by being the team physician again in 1991 and 92 at the Daytona Beach 24 hour endurance races.

In 1991, he was invited for the first time to speak and lecture in Moscow and then Novokuznetsk, Russia and he has been invited to speak regularly since. In 1993 he was awarded an assistant professorship (HON) at the Novokusnetsk School of Post-graduate medicine and in 2004 was given full Professorship status at the School of Post-graduate Social and Rehabilitative Medicine, Moscow.

During these years, Dr. Shafer found time to serve as the President of ICAK-Europe from 1988 to 1995 and President of the International Council from 1992 to 93.

He has written or contributed on three books and has privately published scores of lecture notes throughout 25 years of teaching. Most notably, Dr. Shafer has developed several diagnostic and therapeutic techniques that have found widespread use with physicians and physiotherapists.

At present, Dr. Shafer continues in private practice, to develop new techniques and as a consultant for the profession and lectures widely throughout Europe and the Far East.

 

 Published:

- AK chapter in multidisciplinary book: Dentistry and Alternative Medicine – 1996
- Kinesiologia Applicata e Terapia Craniosacrale (Italian only at present) [Applied Kinesiology and Craniosacral Therapy}
- The Muscle Test Handbook (Guest Editor with Hans Garten) 2013