Everyday Brain Fitness and Bioflex Laser
Mission Statement:
Everyday Brain Fitness and Bioflex Laser’s mission is to provide people with access to non-computerized brain fitness support that integrates social interaction, fall prevention techniques and supportive low-level laser therapy maximizing the overall benefit of a healthy brain function.
Brain Fitness
Activities are designed to retain or strengthen:
Concentration- Accurate perception
- Visual discrimination of foreground-background, form, size, position in space, dimensionality and color
- Visual analysis and synthesis of position in space
- Auditory discrimination of foreground-background,
position in time and space, and dimensionality - Auditory analysis and synthesis of position in time and space
- Visual discrimination of dimensionality
- Decoding and integration of information
- Visual closure
- Imagination
- Visual memory, especially of forms and sequence
- Auditory memory
Short-term—working memory- Long-term memory
- Concept of numbers
- Reasoning
- Logical thinking
- Fine motor coordination
- Gross motor coordination
- Sensory-motor integration
- Processing speed
- Orientation point
- Executive function**
**Executive Functions are abilities that enable goal-oriented behavior such as the ability to plan and execute a goal.
These include:
Flexibility: the capacity for quickly switching to the appropriate mental mode- Theory of mind: insight into other people’s inner world, their plans, their likes and dislikes
- Anticipation: prediction based on pattern recognition
- Problem-solving: defining the problem in the right way to then generate solutions and pick the right one
- Decision making: the ability to make decisions based on problem-solving, on incomplete information and on emotions (ours and others’)
- Working memory: the capacity to hold and manipulate information “on-line” in real time
- Emotional self-regulation: the ability to identify and manage one’s own emotions for good performance
- Sequencing: the ability to break down complex actions into manageable units and prioritize them in the right order
- Inhibition: the ability to withstand distraction, and internal urges
Clients seeking brain fitness desire:
- brain orientation, balance and visual and auditory memory stabilization after mild or moderate brain trauma due to accident or surgery
- concentration, attention, processing and balance after surgical procedures and/or chemotherapy
- retention and/or strengthening of existing cognitive abilities to slow or reverse dementia
- optimal cognitive functioning while aging
Prior to services clients are assessed using evidence based tools to assess strengths: FAB, VAMC SLUMS, TUG, Trailblazing, Serials
Based on the interview and test results, clients receive a written recommendation for appropriate services.
