He combines the PoNS devices with light, sound, and movement to provide healing to people who are given limited help, if any, through traditional medicine.
Doidge has helped autistic children to talk, a blind man to see, reduced pain from disease and accidents. His unique therapies have also reduced the risk of dementia by as much as 60 percent.
Other illnesses that he has helped immensely include Parkinson's, multiple schlerosis, cerebral palsy, and dyslexia. One 80-year old woman was enabled to start walking again, and before long, she was actually balancing on a table, painting the ceiling.
The doctor uses non-surgical procedures and a different understanding of how the brain works in healing. In several cases, he says that the neurons are not firing properly, and the sensory tools he uses helps to put them back in sync – reducing pain and bringing normalization again. When this happens, he says, there is often fast and dramatic improvement.
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Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-19/this-doctor-made-a-blind-man-see-and-an-autistic-boy-speak
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