Imagination is key here. Children do especially well with this type of therapy. Biofeedback Therapy Biofeedback teaches people how to get control over their body's reaction to pain. Patients are hooked up to machines that actually measure their body's physical response to pain. Some of the responses measured are muscle tension, amount of body sweat, blood flow, heart rate and skin temperature.
Patients watch readings as the pain is happening.
The goal here is to then teach patients how to control these physical reactions when confronted with pain and stressful situations in the future. In cognitive therapy, the basic idea is that you can change a person's belief about pain and their reaction to it as well. You learn new responses, thus developing better skills in dealing with pain. All of us carry our own list of fears and expectations about how we may suffer. Here if we can rid ourselves of all the negative feelings that accompany pain, we may feel much better.