Biofeedback

The scope of Biofeedback practice is relaxation and muscle re-education with the intention to reduce stress, pain and to improve the quality of life. Biofeedback is a coaching and training process that helps people learn how to change patterns of behavior and physiological response patterns to take greater self responsibility for their health. Technology is used to provide extra information beyond the ability of normal senses about a particular physiological function. The person first uses the information as feedback to increase awareness or consciousness of the changes in the body/mind function. Then, the feedback is used to learn to develop new levels of voluntary self control over the function. The machines can detect a person's internal bodily functions with far greater sensitivity and precision than a person can alone. This information may be valuable. Both patients and therapists use it to gauge and direct the progress of treatment.

Studies have shown that after adequate training, including training to transfer self control skills to real life; people automatically and effortlessly use the skills they've learned in biofeedback. Usually, people use the skills to bring aspects of their life into better balance and to function at a more optimal level. If they have anxiety, stress, attention, or performance problems, these will often respond very well to biofeedback training.