Frequent migraines made it difficult to deal with her stress-filled life as an advertising executive, wife and mother. Today, Jennifer is thankful that her primary care physician was not afraid to recommend biofeedback therapy. Through this technique, she learned how to prevent migraines and deal with them if they do occur without medication. Biofeedback is a treatment technique that trains people to improve their health without drugs. Clients learn to recognize their body's reactions to stress and how to alter those reactions.
Most people use biofeedback without realizing it.
For example, when you feel hot and achy, you take your temperature. Biofeedback therapists use their machine to detect a person's internal body functions with greater sensitivity and precision than people can themselves. It is a tool, a sophisticated electronic mirror, which gives people a reflection of what they're doing physically so that they can go in and change it. The skills I teach cause changes that are reflected in the biofeedback machine. A biofeedback therapist may first analyze skin temperature by attaching an electrode to the left index finger and connecting it to a computer that visually displays the temperature for the client to see.