Biofeedback

How Does Biofeedback Therapy Work?

Researchers aren't exactly sure how or why biofeedback works. They do know that biofeedback promotes relaxation, which can help relieve a number of conditions that are related to stress.

Biofeedback is the process of gaining greater awareness of many physiological functions primarily using instruments that provide information on the activity of those same systems, with a goal of being able to manipulate them at will.  Some of the processes that can be controlled include brainwaves, muscle tone, skin conductance, heart rate and pain perception.

Different types of biofeedback are used to monitor different body functions:

Electromyogram (EMG). This measures muscle activity and tension. It may be used for back pain, headaches, anxiety disorders, muscle retraining after injury, and incontinence.

Neurofeedback or electroencephalography (EEG). This measures brain waves. It may be used for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), epilepsy and other seizure disorders.

EMG triggered NeuroMuscular Electrical Stimulators (EMG-triggered NMES) : EMG triggered NeuroMuscular Electrical Stimulation is a technology to detect the extremely small electrical ElectroMyoGraphic (EMG) signals still measurable in paralyzed muscles after stroke and use these signals to initiate electrical muscle stimulation impulses to those same muscles resulting in actual muscle movement. This form of stroke rehab is used to re-learn and re-develop spontaneous muscle control, which cannot be done by electrical muscle stimulation alone

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