SERVICES | Garden City Neurology

Services, Testing and Conditions We Treat

stroke
epilepsy
headaches and migraine
brain tumors
brain aneurysms
peripheral neuropathy
sleep disorders
neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease

neuromuscular disorders, such as muscular dystrophy, myasthenia gravis, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
multiple sclerosis (MS), an inflammatory neurological disease
infections of the nervous system, such as encephalitis, meningitis, and HIV
stroke
autism
dementia and Alzheimer’s disease

We treat neurological conditions that affect the brain, spinal cord, and nerves.

These conditions include:

Testing

Neurologists perform a range of different tests and procedures to diagnose and treat neurological conditions.

Some of these procedures include Electromyography (EMG), Electroencephalogram (EEG), Tensilon test, Lumbar puncture.

Electromyography (EMG)

Electromyography (EMG) is a diagnostic procedure that evaluates the health condition of muscles and the nerve cells (or “motor neurons”) that control them. These nerve cells transmit electrical signals that cause muscles to contract and relax. An EMG translates these signals into graphs or numbers, helping doctors to make a diagnosis.

A doctor will usually order an EMG when someone is showing symptoms of a muscle or nerve disorder. These symptoms may include tingling, numbness, or unexplained weakness in the limbs. EMG results can help the doctor diagnose muscle disorders, nerve disorders, and disorders affecting the connection between nerves and muscles.

The results of an EMG can help your doctor determine the underlying cause of these symptoms.

EEG (Electroencephalogram)

An EEG tracks and records brain wave patterns. Small flat metal discs called electrodes are attached to your scalp with wires. The electrodes analyze the electrical impulses in your brain and send signals to a computer that records the results. An electroencephalogram (EEG) is a test used to evaluate the electrical activity in your brain. It can help detect potential problems with brain cell communication.

The electrical impulses in an EEG recording look like wavy lines with peaks and valleys. These lines allow doctors to quickly assess whether there are abnormal patterns. Irregularities may be a sign of seizures or other brain disorders.

The measurements given by an EEG are used to confirm or rule out various conditions, including:
• seizure disorders (such as epilepsy)
• head injury
• encephalitis (inflammation of the brain)
• brain tumor
• encephalopathy (disease that causes brain dysfunction)
• sleep disorders
• stroke
• dementia

Additional Tools

Botox

Botox is a protein made from Botulinum toxin that temporarily paralyzes muscle. In small doses, it can help treat a range of medical conditions, including eyelid spasms and some types of migraine. Botox injections stop the muscle cells from contracting. In this way, the toxin helps the muscles to become less stiff.

Healthcare professionals use Botox to treat a variety of medical conditions, most of which affect the neuromuscular system, such as:

• upper limb spasticity, in anyone older than 2 years
• preventing migraine in people whose migraine headaches last at least 4 hours on 15 or more days per month
• eyelid spasms, or blepharospasm, due to dystonia
• a neurological movement disorder called cervical dystonia that affects the head and causes neck pain

Herbal Medicine

Herbal medicines or supplements are natural compounds from plant leaves, bark, roots, seeds, or flowers. They may offer therapeutic benefits and are part of a category of treatments called complementary and alternative medicine

Herbal medicines contain active ingredients from natural plants. Their use dates back thousands of years, even before the invention of conventional medicine.

While many people prefer herbal medicines to some doctor-prescribed medications, others may use them in combination with prescription and nonprescription drugs.

At Garden Neurology, we are happy to work with you to have discussions about how herbal medicine might help you achieve your wellness goals.

Neurofeedback Therapy

Neurofeedback therapy aims to change the way the brain responds to certain stimuli. It’s also been used to treat epilepsy, anxiety, depression and insomnia, among other mental health disorders and can be an effective treatment for certain patients.

Neurofeedback therapy is a noninvasive, drug-free procedure that measures a patient’s brainwaves and provides the patient with real-time feedback about how the brain is functioning. It’s a type of biofeedback, which is a mind-body technique that aims to help patients gain voluntary control over certain body functions that are typically involuntary (such as heart rate, muscle contraction or brainwaves). Biofeedback uses electronic instruments to convey to the patient certain physiological processes happening in their body that they are typically not aware of.

Neurofeedback therapy is used to help teach self-control of brain functions by indicating to patients how their brains react to certain triggers. Over time, patients learn to recognize when their brain is in a certain state. Then, they can learn to recreate the desired state, such as relaxation, or avoid undesired states, such as agitation, in their daily lives. It has shown improvement in the treatment of disorders including ADHD, anxiety, depression, epilepsy, autism spectrum disorder, insomnia, drug addiction, schizophrenia and learning disabilities.

QEEG (Quantitative EEG)/Brain Mapping

Electroencephalography (EEG) is the measurement of electrical patterns at the surface of the scalp which reflect cortical activity and are commonly referred to as “brainwaves”. Quantitative EEG (qEEG) is the analysis of the digitized EEG, and in lay terms this sometimes is also called “Brain Mapping”. The qEEG is an extension of the analysis of the visual EEG interpretation which may assist and even augment our understanding of the EEG and brain function.

Quantitative Electroencephalography (qEEG) is a procedure that processes the recorded EEG activity from a multi-electrode recording using a computer. This multi-channel EEG data is processed with various algorithms, such as the “Fourier” classically, or in more modern applications “Wavelet” analysis). The digital data is statistically analyzed, sometimes comparing values with “normative” database reference values. The processed EEG is commonly converted into color maps of brain functioning called “Brain maps”.

The EEG and the derived qEEG information can be interpreted and used by experts as a clinical tool to evaluate brain function, and to track the changes in brain function due to various interventions such as neurofeedback or medication.

Rife Therapy

Rife machines are devices which emit audio frequencies or radio frequencies applied in some fashion to an individual with the intent of bettering the individual’s health. The True Rife helps increase the body’s communication and ability to fight off different diseases, as well as rebuild, regenerate, and bring healing to different bodily systems.

Rife Therapy functions on the premise that every pathogen has its own unique frequency called a Resonant Frequency. True Rife therapy uses single frequencies to attack micro-organisms and uses hundreds of different frequencies to destroy numerous types of micro-organisms (bacteria, phages, macrophages, viruses, fungus, mold, etc.).

There are literally millions of different resonant frequencies, and every species and molecule has its very own. Rife Frequency Therapy has been applied by healthcare practitioners for a variety of health concerns for almost a hundred years.

The True Rife Frequency Generator is still often used to eliminate bugs in the body that play a role in both acute and chronic diseases such as:
• Lyme disease
• AIDS
• H Pylori/Food Poisoning
• Tuberculosis
• Cancer/Tumors
• Colds/Flu/Pneumonia
• Virus/Bacteria/Parasite/Mite/Amoeba/Mold/Fungi/Bug
• Pain and inflammation
• Fibromyalgia/Chronic Fatigue/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis

Rife is non-invasive and there is no damage to normal, healthy tissues and cells, etc. The frequencies and voltages are purposely in the range that only are harmful to cancer cells, bacteria, viruses, parasites, etc., and not healthy tissue or gut bacteria. It can be used synergistically with most other treatment protocols (including medicine) without the danger of harmful interactions as is the case with drug therapy. It is speculated that using Rife along with chemotherapy can actually help the chemo better target that tumor.

Osteopathic Medicine

Osteopaths are licensed physicians. A Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, or D.O., is one of two degrees that qualifies a person to become a licensed physician (the other is M.D.) All D.O.s are trained in medical school in the basic practices of medicine, such as primary care, obstetrics, pediatrics, psychiatry, and surgery. In addition to traditional training, D.O.s are trained in the basics of osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMM).

During four years of osteopathic medical school, D.O.s receive extensive training in anatomy, physiology, neurology, orthopedics, and other core areas of medicine. In addition, all D.O.s have an initial minimum foundation and training specifically in OMM, plus elective training, and they must pass several board licensing exams. D.O.’s must complete an internship and often finish residency training in a medical specialty.

Osteopathy involves a truly holistic approach to medicine. The osteopathic physician is particularly interested in understanding the body’s adaptation to adverse influences and often employs alternative and complementary approaches to patient care.

Nutrition

At Garden City Neurology, we view nutrition and health in terms of “bioenergetics”, which means that we are interested foremost in achieving a healthy metabolic rate for our patients. This includes not only nutrition, but also stress management, sleep, and avoiding toxins in the environment. We base much of our own nutritional philosophy on the research of Ray Peat.

If you would like to learn more about this research, there is an excellent summary of his work by Kate Deering called How to Heal Your Metabolism: Learn How the Right Foods, Sleep, the Right Amount of Exercise, and Happiness Can Increase Your Metabolic Rate and Help Heal Your Broken Metabolism.

We know that nutrition plays an integral role in overall health and well-being. We would be happy to consult with you on ways to optimize your nutrition so that you can achieve your wellness goals and live your life to the fullest!