Today I'm playing some excerpts of a session I gave, somebody had a motorcycle accident, they fell off and they hit their head, they were concerned about trauma in their eyes. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.

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00:00Hey everybody, in this episode, I play some excerpts of a session I gave, somebody had a motorcycle accident, they fell off and they hit their head, they were concerned about trauma in their eyes. So in this first clip, I give some background on my training, and how I became an expert at traumatic brain injury and vision. Just a little background here, you may or may not know this, you know, my first practice was in the Philadelphia area I just completed a year fellowship at in the gazelle Institute, which is a place where we work with autistic kids. And it was great. And I saw I opened a practice in Philadelphia, a very convenient area, mainline and I couldn't get any patients. So I went to one of the local hospitals and I volunteered my time to work with traumatic brain injury, the outpatient areas because none of the eye doctors really knew about it, you know, and so within three months, I had such a great success. I got contracts with other hospitals.

And that's how I built my practice in Philly, build it up, sold, it moved into Mexico, and I did some research on traumatic brain injury and vision, which I published and so have, over the years developed, a really great understanding of trauma, you know, studying Peter Levine's work and cranial sacral and continuing movements, and just the relationship between getting hit in the head, and how it affects the muscles and nerves in the eyes. Because in the regular world of what we just say, I care, it's a glasses check and an eye health check. And then you're gone, right? And that's really your eyesight and eye health. So it's not looking at the functional aspects, or how does trauma impacts us.

And when I was on the staff at Esalen Institute, we used to do a lot of back and forth and the cranial people on trauma and neuroplasticity. And so 35 years later, I have some track record on what has happened to you how it's impacted you and how you can repair it. So whenever we have a trauma, as you probably know, the body immediately will freeze up in that particular area as a way to protect it. But when it freezes up, it creates kind of a hole in the connection, the energy that flows, you know, from one part of the body to another as a protective mechanism. So in the nervous system level, what happens is we go into an immediate fight flight or freeze response. And the impact affects us in that particular area. So the tissue begins to compress, and it can deaden, there's less circulation. So there's that going on. And then we know because the eyes and the brain are so interrelated. If we look at prenatal development, very early on the eyes originate from the brain. So every tissue of the eye is brain tissue. So you know, the retina, the cornea, the optic nerve, the lens of the eye, all of those are basically just an extension of the brain. And the brain is about 70% Water 60% fat

03:40and it's floating in the cerebrospinal fluid. So when you get hit in the head area, it can reduce the circulation in that particular area. And so you need to be careful about you know, the flow of cerebral spinal fluid in the brain, and also the circulation then the oxygenation. That being said, the brain has an incredible capability of regenerative potential. This is why the neuroscientists are all always publishing papers, on you know,