|  Contact Information Brucker Biofeedback Center Miami Jewish Home and Hospital Telephone: 305-762-3882 Office Hours 8:30 am until 4:30 pm EST THE BRUCKER BIOFEEDBACK CENTER The Brucker Biofeedback Laboratory at the Miami Jewish Home and Hospital is the most sophisticated laboratory of its type, developing and implementing new and innovative behavioral procedures and advanced microprocessor technology for the purpose of restoring function to people who have paralysis from central nervous system damage such as individuals with strokes, brain injuries, cerebral palsy, brain tumors and spinal cord injuries or damage.
The Laboratory uses a learning procedure developed by Dr. Bernard Brucker which is based on operant conditioning and is designed to teach an individual to utilize motor cells in the brain, brain stem and spinal cord more efficiently using state of the art technology.
This method has become known as the “Brucker Method” and is specifically designed to teach an individual to find and utilize long term repairing and remaining cells after damage as a way of restoring function. Surface electrodes are placed over muscles which have limited or no function. These electrodes do not provide any stimulation, but actually receive the motor neuron activity from the brain, brain stem and spinal cord as it arrives at the muscle site. These electrodes are connected to specially designed computers which process these motor signals accurately and rapidly and present them on a monitor in front of the person. In this way, an individual can actually see how they are utilizing brain, brain stem and spinal cord cells. Even small amounts of motor neuron activity are detectible from this system. This information is then used in the context of learning paradigms to allow the individual to find alternate surviving cells in the brain, brain stem, or spinal cord and connect them to the muscle site.
Once learned, these increases in motor neuron recruitment and coordination of motor neuron recruitment are permanent. As an individual gains greater and better coordinated motor neuron recruitment to affected muscles, these muscles can first respond to other therapeutic procedures, even though they may have previously stopped responding to these treatments. |
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