Biofeedback is a technique to help people improve health problems and reduce pain by controlling the body’s response to blood pressure, heart rate, skin temperature, and muscle tension. Electrodes are attached to the skin or in some cases held in the hand. It measures each body functions and displays them on a monitor. The following are examples of techniques used;
Electromyography (EMG) biofeedback. This type gives you information about your body's muscle tension so that you can practice relaxation.
Temperature (thermal) biofeedback. Sensors attached to your fingers or feet measure your skin temperature. Because your temperature often drops when you're under stress, a low reading can alert you to begin relaxation techniques.
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This type of biofeedback helps you control your heart rate in an effort to improve blood pressure, lung function, and stress and anxiety.
A Biofeedback therapist will then ask several questions to figure out what is triggering the pain. Biofeedback gives a person the power to use their thoughts and helps control their body and helps to focus on certain changes to the body like relaxing certain muscles which will lead to reduce pain. Researchers aren’t sure exactly how or why biofeedback works. But they have seen that most people who benefit from biofeedback have conditions that are triggered on or made worse by stress.
“Relaxation is the key to successful biofeedback therapy. When your body is under chronic stress, internal processes like blood pressure becomes overactive. Guided by a biofeedback therapist, you can learn to lower your blood pressure through relaxation techniques and mental exercises. When you are successful, you see the results on the monitor, which encourages your efforts. (“Biofeedback”, n.d.).”
Biofeedback is a great measure to relive pain for those that have high blood pressure, chronic pain, anxiety or stress, constipation, asthma, chemotherapy side effects, and
Electromyography (EMG) biofeedback. This type gives you information about your body's muscle tension so that you can practice relaxation.
Temperature (thermal) biofeedback. Sensors attached to your fingers or feet measure your skin temperature. Because your temperature often drops when you're under stress, a low reading can alert you to begin relaxation techniques.
Galvanic skin …show more content…
This type of biofeedback helps you control your heart rate in an effort to improve blood pressure, lung function, and stress and anxiety.
A Biofeedback therapist will then ask several questions to figure out what is triggering the pain. Biofeedback gives a person the power to use their thoughts and helps control their body and helps to focus on certain changes to the body like relaxing certain muscles which will lead to reduce pain. Researchers aren’t sure exactly how or why biofeedback works. But they have seen that most people who benefit from biofeedback have conditions that are triggered on or made worse by stress.
“Relaxation is the key to successful biofeedback therapy. When your body is under chronic stress, internal processes like blood pressure becomes overactive. Guided by a biofeedback therapist, you can learn to lower your blood pressure through relaxation techniques and mental exercises. When you are successful, you see the results on the monitor, which encourages your efforts. (“Biofeedback”, n.d.).”
Biofeedback is a great measure to relive pain for those that have high blood pressure, chronic pain, anxiety or stress, constipation, asthma, chemotherapy side effects, and