Biofeedback is a kind of treatment when a person learns to recognize his own body signals and responds to them in the most appropriate manner. It is non-medical treatment when a patient is learning to understand the differentials in his body such as blood pressure, heart rate; skin temperature, sweet glands activity, and muscle tension, in a purpose to get ability consciously control these functions. Biofeedback allows people to control their psychical processes who are related to the autoimmune nervous system. Except the ability to control involuntary functions, the person learns to be integrally involved with his body, they know how to relax and cope with stressful situations. This cure for headaches and some other diseases believes that behavior, thoughts and feelings can eliminate all disorders of organism.
Major Modalities of Biofeedback
The whole biofeedback treatment technology is divided into some major technologies such as electromyograph, feedback thermometer, electrodermograph, electroencephalograph, photoplethysmograph, pneumograph, capnometer, hemoencephalography. Finally, the patient learns to recognize all his organism signals without machines. Now, lets talk about some procedures, that are closely related to the cure for headaches.
Electromyograph
An elektromyograph, also known as EMG, is one of the most commonly used machines in biofeedback treatment. EMG technology typically uses electrodes in order to measure muscle action potentials. EMG normally is used as diagnostic method, but it also can be using as relaxation technique, which eases tension in the muscles causing neck pain, migraine, headaches, backaches, incontinence. EMG is also used in the process of muscle rehabilitation, such as in some cases of paralysis.
Feedback thermometer
It is a technique which is based on the studying of skin temperature. It was noticed that there is a correlation between the body temperatures changes and the patient's experience of stress. The temperature biofeedback can also be useful in diagnostic and treatment of some circulatory disorders, such as Raynaud's disease, and can be helpful in trying to diminish the frequency and intensity of the migraine symptoms.
Electrodermograph
This kind of biofeedback treatment is based on the observation of the patient's sweet glands' activity. The information about this activity may be used in a way to treat emotional disorders such as anxiety, phobias, stuttering, that might cause the headaches, migraine.
Electroencephalograph
An electroencephalograph's, also known as EEG, technology is based on watching the changes of brain waives. These waives depends on the mental condition: activity, relaxation, deep sleep fazes. The lack of relax usually is the main cause of the headaches.
Hemoencephalography
This technology, also known as HEG, is watching the oxygenated and unoxygenated blood circulation in the brain. The lack of oxygen is the often cause of chronic headaches, and migraine pain.
