Biofeedback

Many authorities believe that there was once a time, long ago, when man was the true captain of his bodily functions, at that time, the word “involuntary muscles did not exist, nor its mere concept. Today, we are made well aware of our limitations. However, repeated studies demonstrated that we gain back control again over our so-called involuntary or autonomic bodily functions. And this can be done by the use of biofeedback, which, when properly applied, can offer individuals techniques for living a healthier overall life.

In this treatment technique, people are trained to improve their health by being able to distinguish and use signals from their own bodies. Practitioners of biofeedback believe that we have the innate ability and potential to influence the very automatic functions of our bodies. This can be done through sheer exertion of will and mind. Biofeedback has been discovered to give us back what had previously seemed an impossible degree over physiologic events that directly influence us. Biofeedback research has shown that we can actually learn to consciously control our brainwave activity, cardiovascular and respiratory functioning, reduce skin temperature, as well as voluntarily modify many autonomic processes.

The truth is, the concept of biofeedback is not foreign to us, and you might have used biofeedback yourself. Consider for example, the time when you have taken your temperature or stepped on a weighing scale. The thermometer tells you whether you're having a fever as well as the scale tells whether you've gained weight, in this way, both devices "feed back" information to you about your body.

Because of the information we derive form these devices, we can take steps to improve our condition. In the very same way, biofeedback allows us to use a special machine and sensors to record our muscle contractions and skin temperature. By this way, we can learn to control normally involuntary processes like heart rate and blood pressure which inavertedly increase under stress. Throguh this machine we can eventually recognize and control facets of the our stress response. The control of "involuntary" responses is now an effective treatment for migraine headaches, asthma and other disorders. This biofeedback can also be used to train persons to block the pain of colitis, neuritis, and other conditions, as they had been scientifically proven. To put it simply, biofeedback lets us know when we are changing our physiology so that we can steer it in the desired direction.

Clinical biofeedback techniques are now also widely used to treat tension headaches, and many other types of pain, disorders of the digestive system, high blood pressure and low blood pressure, cardiac arrhythmias or any abnormalities in the rhythm of the heartbeat, asthma, muscle injury, insomnia, TMJ, attention deficit disorder, incontinence and poor posture. It can also alleviate tennis elbow, golfer's elbow, and irritable bowel syndrome, hyperactivity, ringing of the ears, constipation, twitching of the eyelids, esophageal dysfunction, Raynaud's disease, Epilepsy, Paralysis and other movement disorders.

Biofeedback works through electrodes which look like stickers with wires attached and are placed on the client's skin. The client then uses relaxation, meditation, or visualization to bring a desired response while the biofeedback device reports progress. The report is consisted of a change in the speed of beeps, flashes, pitch or quality of the tone. The results are measured through skin temperature, electrical conductivity of the skin that is called glavanic skin response, muscle tension through an electromyograph (EMG), heart rate through an electrocardiograph (ECG) and brain-wave activity through an electroencephalograph (EEG). It is useful in repairing many of the body’s functions like Osteology, Joints, Vascular, Nervous System, Digestive System, Respiratory System, Urinary System, Reproductive Organs, and the Immune System.

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