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It is speculated to work on a principle that the feed back of the body responses like EMG, EEG etc. is used to reinforce certain activity to get relief from chronic pain. Some individuals can learn voluntary control over certain body activities if they are provided with information about how the system is working – how fast their heart is beating, how tense their head or neck muscles are, how cold their hands are. The information is usually supplied through visual or auditory cues that code the body activity in some obvious way – a louder sound meaning an increase in muscle tension.
How people use this biofeedback to learn control is not understood, but some practitioners of the art report that imagery helps; they may think of a warm tropical beach, for example, when they want to raise the temperature of their hands. Biofeedback may be a logical approach in pain conditions that involve tense muscles, like tension headache or low back pain. But results are mixed.

 
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