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Why Biofeedback?

Biofeedback is helpful for a wide variety of medical conditions. Discover who it's for and how it's used.

Have you ever wished you could simply will your symptoms to disappear? With biofeedback you may be able to rely less on medication and more on the power of your mind.

What is biofeedback?

Biofeedback uses your mind to control your body. Biofeedback is a type of complementary and alternative medicine called mind-body therapy. Using feedback from a variety of monitoring procedures and equipment, a biofeedback specialist will try to teach you to control certain involuntary body responses, such as:

Once you learn to recognize and control these responses, you can use biofeedback to help treat a wide range of mental and physical health problems. Even if you don't have a specific disease or condition, biofeedback may help your overall health and sense of well-being.

What conditions benefit from biofeedback?

Biofeedback has been shown to be helpful in treating about 150 medical conditions, including:

Clinical trials are evaluating biofeedback in other conditions as well.

What happens during a biofeedback session?

You can receive biofeedback training in physical therapy clinics, medical centers and hospitals. A typical biofeedback session lasts 30 to 60 minutes.

During a biofeedback session, a therapist will apply electrical sensors to different parts of your body. These sensors will monitor your body's physiological response to stress — for instance, your muscle contraction during a tension headache — and then feed the information back to you via auditory and visual cues. These cues may take the form of a beeping sound or a flashing light. With this feedback, you'll start to associate your body's response — in this case, pain — with certain physical functions, such as your muscles tensing.

Once you begin to recognize that your headache, in this case, is a result of tense muscles, the next step is to learn how to invoke positive physical changes in your body, such as relaxing those specific muscles, when your body is physically or mentally stressed. Your eventual goal will be to produce these responses on your own, outside the therapist's office and without the help of technology.

Pros and cons of biofeedback

Biofeedback may appeal to you for several reasons:

On the other hand, you may be hesitant to try biofeedback because experts aren't entirely sure how the therapy works. Many people who have tried biofeedback can't explain how they're able to control their bodies to relieve their symptoms.

To truly assess whether biofeedback is effective in treating your particular symptoms, keep a daily diary to monitor your use of the treatment as well as how you feel before, during and after the therapy.

Although biofeedback is considered safe, talk to a doctor knowledgeable about this form of complementary and alternative medicine if you have depression, severe psychosis, diabetes or other endocrine disorders. Biofeedback can interfere with the use of some medications, such as insulin.

After a Session...

· After a session, you may experience a subtle shift in energy, often a feeling of well-being that lasts several days. You may also notice in increase in mental clarity and stamina. Dreams are common too due to the integration of the subconscious mind with conscious during a session.

· During the transitional period (one to four days), your body is literally evolving and transforming itself to higher and healthier state. As a result, you may experience symptoms of detoxification such as old memories or emotions, a mild headache, rash, or a stuffy nose for a day or two as your body rids itself of whatever caused the initial imbalance. Many individuals do not experience detoxification symptoms, but if you do, it is not a cause for panic but rejoicing!