Scattered focus, a mind that will not settle or poor sleep can follow an injury or years of stress. We measure how your brain is working, then train steadier patterns with neurofeedback.
The center
Biofeedback is training that shows you a live signal from your own body, so you can learn to change it. At True Performance in Rancho Santa Fe, the main form is neurofeedback, which uses your brainwaves and a qEEG brain map. Heart rate variability training can be added. It supports focus, stress, sleep and thinking after a brain injury.
Your plan starts with an exam led by Dr. Jeff McWhorter, D.C., and day-to-day training is run by our neurofeedback team.
This work is one part of our North County sports medicine clinic, next to brain rehab and performance care.
In this center
In a neurofeedback session, sensors on your scalp read your brainwaves while you watch or listen to a screen. The picture or sound responds when your brain moves toward the pattern set for your goals.
Training happens in the clinic or, when it suits your plan, at home through our remote program. Find out how brainwave training sessions work.
A qEEG brain map is a computer analysis of an EEG, a recording of your brain's electrical activity. You sit still in a sensor cap, eyes open and then closed, while software turns the signals into color maps and numbers.
The map adds data to your exam and helps choose where neurofeedback starts. It is one input, never the whole answer. See what a brain map recording involves.
Conditions
These are the concerns we see most in this part of the clinic. Each page explains how focus, attention and self-regulation training can fit alongside the care you already have.
Attention practice alongside medical, school and behavioral supports
Function-based goals set with each person and their care team
Self-regulation practice alongside counseling or medical care
How it works
Your first visit is about 90 minutes, plus data and history gathering, which can include a qEEG recording.
We read the map with your symptoms and history, then set the training targets for your goals.
We repeat symptom checks and, when useful, the brain map. If nothing is changing, we adjust the protocol or tell you plainly.
Source
Neurofeedback is one of several biofeedback types, alongside heart rate and muscle tension training, as Cleveland Clinic's overview of biofeedback describes.
The clinic
Dr. Jeff McWhorter, D.C., a chiropractor whose practice focuses on functional neurology, leads the exam that shapes your plan. Lex Merrifield, our Neurofeedback Director, runs the day-to-day training program.
Neurofeedback can run alongside concussion rehab, GyroStim and DynaVision training at our Rancho Santa Fe office, so one exam leads to one coordinated plan. See how brain training fits with the rest of our care.
Proof
Visit
In-clinic training takes place at our Rancho Santa Fe office at 18029 Calle Ambiente, Suite 507, in Cielo Village, about two miles from Lake Hodges. Patients who live farther away can ask about the remote program.
The first step
Biofeedback trains you with a live signal from your body, such as heart rate, breathing or muscle tension. Neurofeedback is the type that uses your brainwaves. Most programs here are neurofeedback, and heart rate variability training can be added.
Lex Merrifield, our Neurofeedback Director, runs the day-to-day training program, and your plan starts with an exam led by Dr. Jeff McWhorter, D.C. We do not provide psychotherapy or counseling, and we coordinate with the clinicians who do.
Often, yes. A qEEG map recorded during your first visit helps set where training starts. Your symptoms and your response to each session shape the targets over time.
No. It is a drug-free training approach that works alongside the care your physician or counselor provides. If you take medicine for focus, mood or sleep, keep following your prescriber's plan.
Cost depends on whether a brain map is part of your plan, how many sessions you need, and whether you train in the clinic or at home. We explain it on your complimentary intro call, before you commit.
Start with a complimentary 15-minute call with our team.
