Chronic Pain: Treatment with Neurofeedback

There is a difference between acute pain and chronic pain. The acute pain you feel when you stub your toe does not actually originate in your toe. It originates instead in your brain. Damaged nerves send chemical signals to other nerves in your spinal cord. These nerves, in turn, send chemicals to the pain centers in your brain. Your brain analyzes these signals and delivers a message back to your spinal cord and thence, back to your toe, causing you to react. Ouch!

Pain actually performs a very important function. It alerts you to situations that are dangerous to your body so you stop the behavior that’s causing pain. In the meantime, however, pain hurts!

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Chronic pain is often associated with older injuries, or with slow debilitating changes in the body that are linked to aging. Chronic pain does not offer a particularly helpful warning system to the body. Scientists have discovered that one way to control chronic pain is to teach the brain to redefine the nerve impulses it interprets as “pain,” while teaching the brain to produce more of the effective, “feel good” neurochemicals. This allows the brain’s pain sensitivity threshold to rise, effectively shutting this kind of pain out.

Several clinical studies involving neurofeedback or EEG (brain wave) biofeedback have had promising results in this regard. These kinds of monitoring and training techniques involve the use of sophisticated computer technology that allows therapists to monitor brain wave activity. The therapist gives the client visual and/or auditory sensory cues in an effort retrain the brainwaves to function at or near the norm, or typical, for healthy brain function.

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Neurofeedback has many advantages over other types of therapeutic intervention that are used to treat chronic pain. Unlike pain medications, it is non-narcotic, and won’t affect a patient’s cognitive abilities. Unlike surgical interventions, it is non-invasive. In the simplest terms, neurofeedback is a technique that can help the brain learn to respond more effectively to given circumstances. Once again, the human brain’s amazing ability to adapt can be utilized on its own behalf to become the key to self-healing.

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Dallas Brain Changers offers an integrated approach  to healing from chronic pain without medication that includes neurofeedback and Christian counseling. Beginning with a qEEG, the neurofeedback therapist is able to more accurately pinpoint specific areas of the brain where over or under activity may be responsible for symptoms. During sessions, the therapist acts a personal trainer, helping to retrain brainwaves to function within the norm for healthy brain function, thereby reducing or eliminating symptoms without medication. Counseling addresses unhealthy thought and behavior patterns that have developed as a result of chronic pain or other disorders, while setting achievable goals toward healthier thoughts and choices. By the end of treatment, the client is has experienced significant healing in body, mind, and Spirit, and is typically off all or most medication!

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