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 Homecoming for Veterans (previously EEG4VETERANS) is a national outreach program to provide free Neurofeedback training for veterans for the rehabilitation of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and issues of brain performance resulting from traumatic brain injury, blast injury, concussion, whiplash, and chemical exposure.  
 Neurofeedback (EEG Feedback) is training in brain function based on information derived from the EEG (electroencephalogram). With such training, rapid recovery can be achieved for the relief of PTSD symptoms that include sleep problems, pain, irritability, anger and rage, as well as cognitive deficits. The training can also help soldiers recover from drug, alcohol, and tobacco dependency. The training is based on reinforcement
of better regulated brain behavior as judged by the EEG. The work is success-oriented rather than deficit-focused. It is a fitness strategy that avoids the jargon of mental health, and suits the soldier's natural orientation toward a training and fitness program. 
Veterans who have been through the program have shown tremendous positive benefits. A veteran who had not slept more than 2 hours at a time was sleeping through the night after just 7 sessions, without medication. This same veteran had avoided the movie theater because that was the location of his first flashback. After 12 sessions, he saw a movie for the first time in 8 years. Another veteran was able to save his marriage and family by calming down his anger and his need to control everything. Behaviors that had been appropriate in wartime were destroying his home life. Veterans are getting their lives back with Neurofeedback. Even a veteran from WWII found his sleep restored after not having slept well since 1945. Substantial functional recoveries and
even functional enhancements are routine. We urge veterans to avail
themselves of this free service. There is no need to live with
nightmares, flashbacks, loss of emotional control, lack of energy, and
inability to plan for the future. Even chronic pain can be
substantially helped. And if you are suffering physical injuries, your
brain should not also be your problem. When it comes to symptoms you
have not had before, stop thinking it's you. Start thinking it may
just be a matter of your brain, and that remedies are available and
highly accessible. (P.S. The VA offers only very limited access to
neurofeedback at this time.) 
The EEG Institute (eeginstitute.com) offers a variety of brain wave training programs for adults and children. Our staff is also involved in teaching professionals throughout the world who want to incorporate Neurofeedback into their practices. The Brian Othmer Foundation seeks to make Neurofeedback training available to under-served populations.
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Siegfried Othmer |
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