Biofeedback Benefits

If you read the latest edition of the Thrive, you noticed there is a new biofeedback provider ready to help individuals with their stress management. Professionally trained biofeedback provider with over 30 years of teaching experience, I am Karen Robertson. Believing in confidentiality for my clients and not a healthcare provider, I follow HIPAA confidentiality. I believe biofeedback is a good technique to help people learn to manage their stress instead of their stress managing them. Stress is that six letter word that can make a grown man cringe; and worse yet, sick, leading to chronic pain, anxiety, hypertension, panic disorders, TMJ, depression, post-traumatic stress, over eating, lack of concentration, or a number of other health issues. Biofeedback may be of benefit, as physicians and patients look for alternatives to helping with these conditions. More detailed information on biofeedback is explained here: http://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/biofeedback/home/ovc-20169724.

As you may be aware of, biofeedback is a tool to help you influence your body's functions; primarily your heart rate and breathing. Biofeedback technology uses
It goes back to the old saying: “Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. If you teach a man how to fish, he eats for a lifetime.” The same is true with biofeedback. If a person is taught how to breathe correctly, they learn to manage their stress, hopefully for a lifetime! In biofeedback, technology allows the client to "see" their breathing and heart rate. This allows them to manage these functions. As they learn to breathe correctly, they take control of their autonomic nervous system "fight-or-flight" responses. When they control these responses (feelings), they become less stressed and in turn, their breathing, temperature, blood flow, and digestion come under control naturally. In other words, biofeedback helps the client take control of their