About Biofeedack
We use the latest equipment in the field to assess and train autonomic function physiological processes such as breathing, heart rate variability, peripheral temperature and skin conductance.
Through biofeedback training, you can learn how to down-regulate and optimize these physiological responses for increased wellbeing. This is accomplished by real-time feedback from the multiple sensors placed on the body and watching easy to understand graphics on a computer, which displays feedback that show your current physiologically activation in your body.
Being aware your physiological responses will help you to master them through regular training sessions.
Biofeedback training has been found to help in the treatment of:
Anxiety
Insomnia
Stress
Chronic Pain
Migraine Headaches
Fibromyalgia
Hypertension (high blood pressure)
Reynaud’s Syndrome
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Chronic Fatigue
Chronic muscle tension
Skin Conductance
Skin conductance, otherwise known as galvanic skin response and electrodermal response, refers to the ability of skin to conduct electricity. Our equipment allows for real-time monitoring of skin conductance so you can learn how to relax the autonomic nervous system in order to reduce the amount of sweat produced by sympathetic-mediated (stressed) eccrine glands.
Muscle Tension
Most people are not aware of how stress impacts their muscle tension until pain is experienced. Surface Electromyography (sEMG) uses two sensors across a muscle to measure and train muscle activity. The clinician may train the frontalis or upper trapezius for overall relaxation or target specific muscles such as the masseter muscles to reduce jaw tension.
Temperature
Cold hands and feet may be an indicator of your body being in a state of flight or fight. When your body is in sympathetic mode, blood vessels constrict, blood flow decreases and so does skin temperature. We can measure your peripheral temperature (temperature outside your core body temperature) by placing a sensor on your finger. We train you on how to learn to turn off the sympathetic response which will raise your finger temperature. Our goal is to get your fingers to an average temperature of 35 degrees celsius.
Respiratory Biofeedback
Respiratory training is one of the most useful biofeedback interventions in stress reduction. Many individuals diagnosed with anxiety have in effect an overbreathing issue.
At Mindful Pathway, we have specifically equipment to assess resonant breathing frequency (breaths per minute that promote the best autonomic state possible) and to monitor effectiveness of gas exchange during normal breathing.
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