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[Sonflower]

I have never tried Biofeedback for pain management, have you?

I have tried various treatment some have been semi successful, but I am in need of something new to try. I have been having a major flare up of "Full Body Muscular Pain and Fatigue".

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Take care;  Sonflower

[Mollyrae]

What I have heard about the Bio-Feedback is not good. Now, I have not actually had the prceedure but I have heard fron many that it's a very painful proceedure BUT it has also helped those in pain.

I feel that if your really want to read up on the Bio....enter it into the search box and you'll get quite a few posts regarding it.

My Best,
Mollyrae

[Sonflower]

Thanks for your responce and the information...

Wow, I had no idea that it could be painful, I have enough of that!  

I will follow up on the Bio...  and read about it, I have never checked it out.

Thanks again; Sonflower

[Mollyrae]

You're so welcome. Good luck !!

[markb67]

I just started biofeedback to hopefully ease headaches.  It's way too early to know if it'll be effective, but I don't see why it should be painful.

In biofeedback, one learns how to control autonomic nervous system responses, such as heart rate variability, skin temperature, galvanic skin response (essentially sweat), and breathing to temper the body's "flight-or-fight" responses.  Lower anxiety, less adrenaline, more relaxation.  You monitor your body's responses painlessly with electrodes or monitors placed on your skin, around your abdomen, etc.  No pain at all.  I've only practice the breathing techniques so far, which I believe are the anchor of the program, but I doubt learning to control the other responses will be particularly uncomfortable.

I'm also doing sEMG, which monitors activity of muscles.  Again, electrodes are placed painlessly on your muscles, and you get to see if they're being worked even if you're not aware of it, as the monitors pick up microvolts (I think that's what it is) of electricity.  For example, the therapist put electrodes on my neck and measured the activity.  I didn't feel tense, but when she told me to relax my neck, I consciously relaxed my neck and could see on the monitor that the muscles were less active.  It can be a very subtle difference that you're not aware of until it's shown to you.  That way, you can "see" how relaxed is supposed to feel.

In sEMG, depending on your problem or muscle imbalances, you may be given exercises to correct problems.  Maybe those can be painful--I don't know.  So far, the only ones I've been given to do have been gentle.