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42 December 2007
ADVANCES
IN MEDICINE
The Neuroeducator indicates progress as Dr. Bernard Brucker works with Maëliese
Jean, an 18-year-old with cerebral palsy from Marseille, France, at the Brucker
Biofeedback Center at Miami Jewish Home and Hospital.
Brucker Method Offers Hope
To Patients With Paralysis
r. Bernard S. Brucker is the surviving neurons provide potential alter-
Director of the Brucker Biofeed- native pathways to carry the electrical
Dback Center at the Miami Jewish impulses that make movement possible.
Home and Hospital. The Brucker “The pathways are there already! The
brain is incredibly plastic, but it doesn’t
Biofeedback Center is the most advanced
laboratory of its type, developing and happen unless you demand it,” Dr.
implementing new and innovative behav- Brucker explains. The Neuroeducator
ioral procedures and advanced micro- visually depicts the electrical impulses
processor technology for the purpose of sent by the patient’s brain – the process
restoring function to people who would known as biofeedback. Watching the
normally be facing permanent paralysis screen while trying to move immobilized
from central nervous system damage such parts of the body helps the patient’s brain
as strokes, brain injuries, cerebral palsy “re-wire,” so they can, over time, regain
and spinal cord injuries. function.
This work was developed by Dr. Bernard The Brucker Method has been highly
Brucker, Associate Professor in the successful, and persons with paralysis
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral who have stopped responding to other
Sciences at the University of treatments come to the Brucker
Miami–School of Medicine. Biofeedback Center from all over the
The origin of “the Brucker Method” world to seek treatment for improvement
dates back to 1969, when Dr. Brucker of function. The Center has experience
was an Assistant Research Scientist at with over 12,000 cases, with a 98% suc-
NYU Medical Center working on cess rate of restoring at least one level of
research to better understand how the function. Remarkable success stories,
structure of the brain and spinal cord some involving high-profile figures like
translate into function, and how recov- Detroit Lions football player, Mike Utley,
ery can be implemented after damage to and Brazil’s premiere classical pianist and
the brain and spinal cord. conductor, João Carlos Martins, have
Dr. Brucker moved his center to the generated extensive national and inter-
University of Miami–School of Medicine national media coverage.
in 1981, and its main clinical laboratories The Brucker Biofeedback Center’s
are now located at the Miami Jewish Home unparalleled reputation, based upon the
and Hospital at Douglas Gardens. medical technology developed and refined
The Brucker Method utilizes a by Dr. Brucker and his dedicated team of
“Neuroeducator” developed by Dr. biofeedback therapists and clinicians, has
Brucker to access a physiological capabili- truly made Miami a beacon of hope for
ty neuroscientists call “unmasking.” some of the most profoundly disabled peo-
When axons are severed or neurons die, ple around the world.
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