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Mind-body techniques for pain management and control

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Accidental falls and injuries lead into intense pain, which becomes difficult to manage. Over-the-counter medicines may offer some pain relief, but the side-effects can be severe. Mind-body techniques have emerged as powerful way to manage pain because these techniques also aid in the management of anxiety and the sensation of threat. Various techniques like meditation, guided imagery, and biofeedback can be used by a professional therapist to stimulate relaxation. What’s best one for you is the one that you like and what gives the best outcomes.   Chronic pain management by mind-body techniques has gained immense popularity as an alternative treatment. Mind-body therapies are all about changing the awareness of pain and retraining the way people respond to it. The therapy can help control pain, the long-lasting chronic back pain. The biofeedback You don’t realize, but your body constantly works on things like breathing and pumping blood. In case of stress, as it happens in chronic pa
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Understanding Biofeedback for Chronic Pain Control

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There are certain actions that you can control and there are some that you don’t even think of controlling. For instance, when you wave your hand to a friend or lift your leg to take steps, you control these actions. Think about other body functions like – skin temperature, blood pressure and heart rate – can you control them?  These actions are controlled by your nervous system, involuntarily. The thought of making your heart beat faster can never bother you. It happens naturally in response to the environment or the condition you are in – like exercising or excited.  If you think of controlling these actions, you need to understand biofeedback. Yes, it’s a technique that can enable you to gain more control on these rather involuntary functions controlled by nervous system. In recent times, there has been a lot of talk about biofeedback for chronic pain control , including headaches and migraine. It’s a therapy that is also believed to prevent or treat other conditions like incontinen
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