Story of Stress – Chapter 1 – Stress Happens…
Stress Happens… Do you hear lots of confusing stories about your headaches, what’s causing them, why they don’t respond well to medication and why
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Stress Happens… Do you hear lots of confusing stories about your headaches, what’s causing them, why they don’t respond well to medication and why
Chapter 2, How Headaches Become Habits Chapter 1, Stress Happens…was about how important the Autonomic Nervous system (ANS) is to the stress response. Habits
Can you remember a scene at the movies when the camera goes in for a close-up on the gangster’s face during a tense moment…
When we are presented with a real or perceived threat to our survival, the autonomic nervous system responds to the event with an alarm reaction…
What it means when your doctor says there’s nothing wrong even though you have severe headaches. So, we don’t treat headaches as a medical problem…
As biofeedback therapists, we spent many years in private practice training people with chronic migraine and tension headaches how to eliminate and prevent them…
Stress is unavoidable. No one can live a stress-free life. Nor would that be desirable. ‘Good’ stress or more to the point, ‘optimum’ stress, is necessary for healthy growth and development…
Most people have no experience with biofeedback which is unfortunate. Unlike many tests your doctor performs when you have chronic headaches it is not to rule out a medical problem. It actually defines the problem.
If you are like most of the typical chronic headache sufferers we know, you have endured countless trials of medication, been fitted with numerous and costly splints…
