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Electrical Biofeedback equipment for the pain and fatigue of fibromyalgia can help you be more aware of your body's reaction to stress and pain, and to learn how to control your body's physical reactions. Biofeedback for pain and fatigue monitors a fibromyalgia patient’s heart rate, blood pressure, skin temperature and muscle tension. These body signals are shown on a screen or gauge so you can see how your body is reacting. Biofeedback helps Fibromyalgia patients with pain and fatigue, they learn how to feel when their muscles are tense or relaxed. If you do a relaxation technique while using the equipment, you can learn to control some of your body's responses to pain. One advantage of biofeedback is that it helps fibromyalgia pain and fatigue, showing patients that they have the ability to relax.

• How Does Biofeedback Work?

How Does Biofeedback Work?
Scientists cannot yet explain how biofeedback works. Most patients who benefit from biofeedback are trained to relax and modify their behavior. Most scientists believe that relaxation is a key component in biofeedback treatment of many disorders, particularly those brought on or made worse by stress, specifically FIBROMYALGIA syndrome. Their reasoning is based on what is known about the effects of stress on the body. In brief, the argument goes like this: Stressful events produce strong emotions, which arouse certain physical responses. Many of these responses are controlled by the sympathetic nervous system,  the network of nerve tissues that helps prepare the body to meet emergencies by "flight or fight".

The typical pattern of response to emergencies probably emerged during the time when all humans faced mostly physical threats. Although the "threats" we now live with are seldom physical, the body reacts as if they were: The pupils dilate to let in more light. Sweat pours out, reducing the chance of skin cuts. Blood vessels near the skin contract to reduce bleeding, while those in the brain and muscles dilate to increase the oxygen supply. The gastrointestinal tract, including the stomach and intestines, slows down to reduce the energy expensed in digestion. The heart beats faster, and blood pressure rises.

Normally, people calm down when a stressful event is over especially if they have done something to cope with it. For instance, imagine your own reactions if you're walking down a dark street and you hear someone running toward you. You get scared. Your body prepared you to ward off an attacker or run fast enough to get away. When you do escape, you gradually relax.

If you get angry at your boss, it is a different matter. Your body may prepare to fight. But since you want to keep your job, you try to ignore the angry feelings. Similarly, if on the way home you get stalled in traffic, there is nothing you can do to get away. These situations can literally may you sick. Your body has prepared for action, but you cannot act. Individuals differ in the way they respond to stress. In some, one function, such as blood pressure, becomes more active while others remain normal. Many experts believe that these individual physical responses to stress can become habitual. When the body is repeatedly aroused, one or more functions may become permanently overactive. Actual damage to bodily tissues may eventually result.