Mind-body techniques for pain management and control

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 pain, these unnoticed processes undergo immense changes. The pain may cause shallow breath, pulse changes, and other biophysical modifications. Mindful interventions can help reverse these automatic responses, causing physical and mental pain relief in the process.

Biofeedback is a technique that gives bodily insights to help develop skills to recognize and control these unconscious physical reactions. The technique is non-invasive and requires no medication.  

Depending on the pain and its potential source, the biofeedback therapist attaches sensors to your body to measure different functions. This information is essential to control chronic pain in several ways.

Biofeedback requires measurement of:

• Brain waves
• Breathing
• Muscle contraction
• Heart rate
• Body temperature
• Sweat gland activity

If you talk about chronic pain control by alternative techniques, biofeedback gains the preference. For assistance, contact Felix, a Biofeedback specialist since 2004. He provides therapy to improve overall health and quality of life.