Recovery from Chronic Illness and Long COVID

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LENS Neurofeedback is a primary treatment for persistent flu and lingering virus symptoms. It’s an effective therapy for autoimmune aftereffects and chronic illnesses called long-hauler syndrome or Long COVID-19. These may include shortness of breath, fatigue, body aches, persistent cough, headaches, brain fog, dizziness, palpitations, and memory loss.

Neruotherapy is shown to be effective in relieving painful symptoms of fibromyalgia, Lyme disease, and anxiety leading to depression. Treatment reduces brain and body inflammation. It improves circulation and restores normal functioning for most people in one or two treatments.

•   Reduce brain fog, body aches, and fatigue. 
•   Rebuild healthy neural networks. 
•   Relieve discomfort, anxiety, and depression.
•   Restore mental clarity, body comfort, and renewed energy.

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A Primary Treatment

COVID-19 symptoms can last anywhere from four weeks to years after testing positive. Doctors and patients have given it the name “long haulers.” They have, in theory, recovered from the worst impacts of illness and tested negative. However, they still have symptoms and complications in many cases. There is no consistent reason for this to happen.

 This condition can affect anyone—old and young, otherwise healthy people, and those battling other conditions. It has been seen in those hospitalized for it and patients with very mild symptoms. Studies indicate that about 10% of people infected will experience long-hauler symptoms.

“We see many people who weren’t ever hospitalized, so they maybe were younger or even older. They were sick at home. Maybe febrile, body aches, felt crummy for some time but never recovered. Or, they recovered slightly and then worsened again,” said Christian Sandrock, MD, MPH. Dr. Sandrock is a pulmonary, critical care, and infectious disease physician and professor of medicine at the University of California Davis in Sacramento, California.

Severe viral infections result in brain and body trauma; even after the virus is gone, defensive trauma and distress often manifest as a multitude of symptoms and disabilities.

LENS Neurofeedback is a primary therapy being used to treat lingering illness due to severe virus infections or flu symptoms. Treatment accelerates recovery due to its effect on inflammation. LENS has been clinically demonstrated successful with a wide variety of symptoms and disorders in over a million sessions worldwide. Initial treatments have been shown to relieve lingering flu and viral long-term symptoms.


Personalized for Stability and Success

Neurofeedback is a passive EEG in-office treatment administered while seated in a chair, with small sensors on your head. The treatment takes only a few minutes and begins working immediately. It automatically relaxes the central nervous system while optimizing neural pathways and permits the brain to operate more efficiently.
The brain immediately begins healing itself in the initial treatment session. LENS Neurofeedback helps the body’s immune system automatically eliminate energy-wasting neural pathways adversely affected. This means many trauma symptoms are healed and eliminated in the order of severity regardless of how long they have persisted.
Results can be noticed within minutes with immediate relief. Effects lengthen in the first few hours and days following treatment. Indicators include a return to increased bodily comfort and mental clarity. Multiple treatment sessions may be needed for severe disabilities like smell blindness, fatigue, or impaired hearing. Follow-up treatments ensure enduring benefits and stable results. Good health and fitness support a full recovery in a single session.


CASE STUDY: Post-Viral Cognitive Impairment

At age 19, Peter was struck down by the pandemic. Returning to work after three weeks, his supervisors told him he was slow and ineffective.

He couldn’t notice a problem with his thinking–he thought he was covering up his difficulty– but everyone in his life told him he was not at his best. In his own words: “This virus was the worst illness of my 19 years, leaving me feeling very bad in bed for a couple of weeks. My main symptoms were headaches, sore throat, body ache, and ongoing fatigue.”

“I had no sense of smell or taste as well. Recovery was slow. But even after months, I could not transition past the last “sick me” to the “regular me” because thinking and moving took impossible effort. Was I becoming what they call a “long hauler,” with symptoms lasting years after the virus is gone?”

Session 1: “My energy has increased. I can watch my thoughts. Something cleared–I am paying attention to every word I hear. The meaning goes in and stays. Why couldn’t I tell how bad things were before? This is the “regular me” I have been missing! I’m back.”

Session 2: “LENS was something. I had never heard about it but was very curious to experience it. It took me a while to notice the effects, but after my second session, I realized that my brain fog and body fatigue were gone. Not improved, but gone. It was amazing to see how quickly it worked. It felt like my mind and body were in sync again. I felt more energetic and focused, which was a pleasant feeling that kept going.”