Being in pain and not feeling well all the time could be the mind over body process to control the pain. The brain activity has a lot to do with how you feel. Biofeedback can help you learn to control these feelings. Once you gain control over your feelings you will feel better and enjoy better health even if you do not have one specific thing wrong.
Using biofeedback can teach you how to live with everyday life and stress that may be causing you to have chronic pain, headaches, asthma or many other health problems. By working with your therapist and using the biofeedback therapy you will learn how your body works with the mind, like having your blood pressure go up and down, brain activities, muscle tension and irregular heart rate.
Biofeedback can help with over 150 different illnesses including hot flashes, asthma, high blood pressure, and epilepsy, even people with diseases like cerebral palsy. More often than not it will take more than one biofeedback session and they usually last for 30-60 minutes.
How biofeedback works:
During the session, the therapist will attach sensors to your body in different places depending what your condition is. The sensors will record what is happening at different times. For instance, biofeedback may find muscles spasms, or tensed muscles, where they are and the severity of them. Your therapist will work and train you to relax in different ways to relieve a headache, lower back pain or other pain.
The training is all about training your mind to work with your body so they don’t work against each other. As the monitor gives you cues on what’s going on you’ll be trained to move around, think imaginary things, or just to let yourself go into relaxation. Relaxation and relief from stress are important things a person needs to stay health. The concept seems to follow self-hypnosis, since this too guides you into relaxation.
Different types of biofeedback are available and one is knows as an EMG treatment. Biofeedback helps you to relax the muscles that cause your headaches or back pain even help with the grinding of your teeth.
Temperature biofeedback sensors will measure your skin temperature for treating disorders such as circular problems and will let you know if you need to practice relaxation.
How to decide if biofeedback is right for you:
There are some good and bad points to consider when deciding if you want to go with the biofeedback treatment. The good points are it can help to reduce or sometimes eliminate medications, can help with some conditions that are not responding to the medications you are taking and it puts you in control of your life.
