Helping your brain injury

Understanding and Restoring Brain Function After Trauma

A brain injury can change how you think, move, feel, or experience the world — even if your scans appear “normal.” Whether it’s from a concussion, accident, fall, or athletic injury, the effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) often go far beyond the moment of impact.

Helping brains recover

At SCC Neuro, we specialize in helping patients recover optimal brain function through personalized, non-invasive treatments based on the science of functional neurology and neuroplasticity — the brain’s ability to rewire and restore itself.

What Happens After a Brain Injury

Even a mild head injury can temporarily disrupt how brain cells communicate. The affected networks may include areas that control:

  • Balance and coordination

  • Attention and memory

  • Vision, eye movement, or spatial awareness

  • Mood, energy, and autonomic regulation

Though traditional imaging like CT or MRI might not show damage, functional changes in communication between brain regions can lead to lingering symptoms.

Common Symptoms

  • Headaches or pressure in the head

  • Problems concentrating or remembering

  • Dizziness, light sensitivity, or motion intolerance

  • Fatigue and brain fog

  • Mood changes, anxiety, or irritability

  • Sleep disturbances or sensory overload

These are signs of disrupted neural communication pathways, not necessarily structural injury.

Functional Neurology Evaluation

Our comprehensive assessment looks beyond symptoms to identify how specific areas of your brain are functioning and interacting.

This may include:

  • Neurological and balance testing

  • Eye movement and vestibular evaluation

  • Cognitive and memory screening

  • Autonomic and sensory system assessment

By mapping which regions are underactive, fatigued, or out of sync, we can target them precisely with neurorehabilitation exercises designed to promote recovery.

Personalized Neurorehabilitation

Each care plan is unique and may include:

  • Vestibular and ocular-motor therapy

  • Cognitive retraining and brain endurance exercises

  • Coordination and balance therapy

  • Sensory recalibration and movement training

  • Neurofeedback and autonomic regulation

Our programs are designed to rebuild functional efficiency, synchrony, and resilience — not just relieve symptoms.

Recovery & Hope

Healing after a brain injury is possible. With the right approach, the brain can adapt, strengthen connections, and restore proper function.
At SCC Neuro, every program is grounded in neuroscience and compassion — helping you return to focusing, thinking, and living well again.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) result in complex neurophysiological sequelae affecting cognitive, vestibular, ocular, and autonomic networks. At SCC Neuro, the clinical emphasis is on identifying and rehabilitating functional disconnections rather than solely structural lesions.

Mechanisms of Dysfunction

Following brain injury, several pathophysiological processes occur:

  • Diffuse axonal injury leading to delayed neural transmission

  • Neurovascular and metabolic mismatch resulting in regional hypometabolism

  • Altered cerebello-thalamo-cortical connectivity affecting coordination and focus

  • Autonomic imbalance and impaired homeostatic regulation

  • Oculomotor and vestibular integration errors disrupting spatial orientation

Even without structural damage visible on neuroimaging, these functional impairments interfere with the brain’s ability to synchronize sensory, motor, and cognitive systems.

Clinical Manifestations

Common presentations include:

  • Cognitive slowing and executive dysfunction

  • Dizziness and disorientation (visual-vestibular mismatch)

  • Postural instability and motor coordination deficits

  • Visual convergence insufficiency and motion sensitivity

  • Fatigue, mood lability, and autonomic dysregulation

  • Sleep and sensory hypersensitivity disorders

These findings reflect dysfunctional neural network integration rather than localized pathology.

Functional Neurological Evaluation

Our clinicians employ a neurophysiologically directed assessment model involving:

  • Comprehensive quantitative neurocognitive and oculomotor testing

  • Autonomic profiling (autonomics, pupillometry)

  • Dynamic postural and vestibular evaluation

  • Cerebellar and prefrontal function assessment

  • Dual-task balance and motor-cognitive interaction testing

    Findings yield a regional map of neural inefficiency guiding targeted rehabilitation.

Functional Neurological Evaluation

Our comprehensive evaluation explores:

  • Eye movement metrics (saccadic latency, pursuit gain, VOR testing)

  • Postural and optokinetic reflex analysis

  • Cognitive load tolerance and dual-task performance

  • Autonomic profiles including HRV and pupillary dynamics

  • Cerebellar, parietal, and frontal lobe activation asymmetries

Quantitative findings inform precisely targeted interventions to promote hemispheric balance and reestablish sensory-motor congruency.

Neurorehabilitation Framework

Intervention protocols emphasize adaptive activation within the patient’s tolerance threshold to induce durable, region-specific plasticity. Examples include:

  • Vestibular recalibration and gaze stabilization

  • Visual-motor and vergence rehabilitation

  • Coordinative cerebellar exercises for timing and precision

  • Autonomic regulation (orthostatic adaptation, HRV training)

  • Neurocognitive and dual-task performance training

Treatment frequency and intensity are continuously adjusted based on objective markers such as oculomotor control, balance metrics, and symptom provocation thresholds.

Rehabilitation Goals

Our objective is long-term functional integration and network optimization, focusing on:

  • Normalization of interhemispheric synchrony

  • Restoration of efficient neurovascular coupling

  • Improved cognitive processing speed and attention

  • Enhanced visual-vestibular and cerebellar performance

  • Autonomic stability under physical and cognitive load

Why SCC Neuro

  • Postgraduate training in Clinical Neuroscience and Functional Neurology

  • Evidence-based models rooted in neurophysiological assessment

  • Precision treatment protocols built on measurable outcomes

  • Multimodal, patient-specific neurorehabilitation methodology

Professional Consultation and Referral

Clinicians seeking collaborative management or referral for patients with chronic post-concussion or brain injury symptoms are encouraged to connect with SCC Neuro for specialized functional neurological assessment and care.

Schedule a Comprehensive Neurological Evaluation

Cognitive fatigue can indicate widespread inefficiencies in brain network integration following injury, illness, or chronic stress. Comprehensive neurological assessment and targeted neurorehabilitation can restore performance capacity and mental stamina.

Contact SCC Neuro to schedule a cognitive and functional brain evaluation.