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Guest Blog - "A Little Light and Sound Goes a Long Way"

By Mind Alive

May 17, 2016 Dr. Luis Arrondo, D.C., C.A.B.N.N San Jose, CA. This was relayed to me in a recent office visit by a patient named Rosa, who I have been treating for some time: On March 21, 2016, Rosa’s sister, Maria Luisa, a person diagnosed with diabetes and who had seen me a couple of times, was operated on for diabetic complications. She underwent a lower-leg amputation above the knee at a hospital in Northern...

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Rethink Learning Methods

By Mind Alive

When I attended college and university in the '80s, I lived a crazy lifestyle of going from blasts of really studying to partying really hard with very little sleep. When I had to write an essay, I would mull the subject around in my head for a week or so and then, the night before it was due, I would sit down at the kitchen table and try to piece together a spectacular essay.  My...

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Differentiating the Two Types of Tinnitus

By Dave Siever

Differentiating the Two Types of Tinnitus
Dave Siever discusses tinnitus in this blog post. "There is much confusion about ringing in the ears called tinnitus. It’s my belief that this is mainly because most people are not aware that there are two very distinct types of tinnitus, which are:
  • Muscle tension resulting from malocclusion (a poor bite), stress and anxiety.
  • Neuroplastic changes from cochlear dropout (lost frequencies)."
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Celebrating 20 years with the BBB!

By Mind Alive

Apr 29th, 2015 Dave and Nancy Siever have been operating their company, Mind Alive Inc., since 1981 and are now celebrating a 20 year relationship with the BBB. They design, manufacture and sell brainwave entrainment devices worldwide. I interviewed them about how they felt this has been a beneficial situation for them. What does the BBB do? BBB (Better Business Bureau) handles many kinds of complaints. The complaints cover all aspects of business: Guarantee /...

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Dave's Adventures in AVE Land

By Mind Alive

Dave's Adventures in AVE Land

The Performing Arts instructor was pleased with the results he was getting with his students, but Dave remained somewhat unconvinced of the power of this new-age fad called AVE until 1988, when he ran a study with some of their most difficult TMJ patients they had seen yet. Astonished, Dave looked on as the DAVID 1 was able to eliminate masseter muscle tension (as measured with EMG), plus it was able to induce hand-warming (a...

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