About

Glenn Cameron, the Founder and President of Innovative Therapy, a chronic pain therapy treatment clinic, is blind and possesses a heightened sense of touch, developed over many years reading braille. This extraordinary sensory capability enables Glenn to feel vital clues ultimately used to identify the root causes of most chronic pain conditions with extreme precision. It also offers an invaluable asset in delivering effective treatments, selecting from a complete collection of the world’s best technologies to solve the causes he detects. Glenn’s training and knowledge of neurology and its highly specialized sub-specialty, functional neurology, and key diagnostic skills allow him to both diagnose and resolve often misunderstood and mistreated neurological pain conditions.

Glenn was born with retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic eye disorder that eventually robs a person of their sight.  He had good vision in his earlier years, enjoyed winter, and summer sports and became a pilot until his vision deteriorated- ending his flying days at the age of 24.  Two years later, Glenn gave up his driver’s license, beginning the next phase of life with a visual disability. He was forced out of his career as an electronics service technician and then as a computer consultant, due to degenerating vision.  Wanting to continue being a functional part of society, he targeted a career that would not depend on sight. In 2008 Glenn began his training in Professional Chronic Pain Therapy.  His relentless determination to succeed saw him cut every book apart to scan thousands of individual pages, converting them into readable text by the screen reading software on his computer. With the help of his life-sized skeleton, which is still an integral part of his clinic today, Glenn endured and graduated.  He could not know then how his vision loss would change his life and the lives of others whom he would eventually treat.

Glenn thought learning Braille was the next normal progression for a person going blind.  There was no way for him to know then how this would change his life forever. Learning to read Braille would prove to be life-altering.

It took almost five years to develop the sensitivity in his fingers to be able to read the tiny Braille dots with accuracy and speed, mentally converting the dot patterns into alphabetical characters and ultimately words and sentences.  According to medical researchers, we have roughly 50,000 sensation receptors in every square inch of our fingertips, but most do not develop sensitivity in these receptors.  Those who read Braille do- seen as a rather unique and very special coping mechanism.