Biofeedback Therapy for Stress

What Does Stress Do To Your Body?

While stress is a normal physiological response to the challenges we face in life, chronic stress can impact our health. However, with the pace of today’s world, it can often be challenging for many people to be able to reduce stress or to even create time for stress management. The problem is that chronic stress has been linked with many health issues. Following are just some of the impacts of stress:

Stress Cognitive Health Impact

Difficulty concentrating and focusing, impaired memory, decreased ability to learn, impaired decision making, impaired problem solving

Stress Physical Health Impact

Lowers the immune system’s resilience, dysregulates endocrine system (cortisol and insulin become dysregulated), creates chronic muscular tension (this can trigger pain problems such as migraines, TMJ, lower back pain), triggers digestive disorders (such as IBS, and acid reflux), impacts reproductive system (lowers libido, triggers menstrual irregularity and hormonal imbalance), and puts the cardiovascular system at risk (hypertension, heart disease, stroke and arrhythmias have all been correlated with stress as risk factors and triggers)

Stress Mental Health Impact

Increases anxiety disorders, risk of depression, emotion dysregulation, and burnout

Stress Behavioral Health Impact

Disrupts sleep (which aggravates other health issues), triggers unhealthy eating habits and unhealthy coping habits (such as drinking, smoking, and numbing behaviors (e.g. doom scrolling, impulsive shopping, etc)

Stress Social Health Impact

Impacts ability to communicate successfully, reduces social-emotional tolerance (increases sensitivity to triggers), increases likelihood of isolation

As such, it is important to look at different ways to reduce the stress in one’s life as well as different ways to manage stress.

What Does Stress Management Mean?

Often, when people think about stress management, they think about ways to have a more positive attitude and better time management in order to minimize the possibility of becoming stressed by the stressors in their lives. While time management and attitude absolutely do have a positive impact on our health, stress management goes further than that.

When we think about stress, it’s important to remember that stress is not the stressors. Stressors are the things in our lives that trigger stress. Stress is the physiological change in our body that takes it from a rest-digest regulated state, to a stressed state. The chemistry in the body is different, the muscular tension is different, and the engagement of the heart and lungs is different. This is why chronic stress can impact our health. And this is why, when we think about the way the world is today and the importance of stress management in Dubai, there are three important factors to stress management to address: 

• Using tools (such as time management) that help manage and reduce the stressors. Finding the best stress management tools for you can be very helpful.
• Engaging in lifestyle practices that help release the stress physiology and bring the body-mind back into a regulated state.
• Seeking treatment to help reduce the impact of chronic stress and shift stress patterns.

How Biofeedback Therapy Helps Manage Stress? 

Biofeedback therapy would be part of the third aspect of stress management. It is an alternative treatment to reduce the impact of chronic stress and shift stress patterns. The biofeedback therapy device is picking up the following biofeedback signals from your body and mind to assess stress:

• Voltage, Amperage, Resistance: Every cell in our body is powered by electrical charges that drive cellular functions such as detoxification, regeneration, and communication. A fundamental part of biofeedback therapy is measuring the voltage, amperage, and resistance related to these electrical charges.
  • Voltage: Refers to the measure of the electrical pressure (similar, for example, to water pressure in a hose).
  • Amperage: Refers to how much electrical charge is moving through the system (like how much water is flowing through a hose).
  • Resistance: Refers to how much opposition there is to the flow of the electrical current (similar to detecting a narrow part of a hose where water flow is restricted compared to other parts of the hose).
• Hydration, Oxygenation, Protons, and Electrons: Are important components for maintaining healthy cell function and overall energetic balance in the body. For biofeedback therapy, these elements are measured because they are regarded to reflect the body’s energetic and biochemical readiness to respond to stress, adapt and heal.
  • Hydration: affects electrical conductivity, energy flow and nutrient transportation
  • Oxygenation: stimulates vitality and creates energy
  • Protons: have to do with pH balance, enzyme activity and health
  • Electrons: power ATP synthesis and reduce oxidative stress

The above are just some of the biofeedback information that a biofeedback therapy device is collecting. After collecting the data it needs, the biofeedback therapy software assesses the physiology for stress based on this data, and sends back the corrective signals stimulating the physiology to return to a healthy regulated rhythm.

Benefits Of Biofeedback Therapy For Stress

For many people living in Dubai, the pace of life makes it challenging to manage stress. As a result, chronic stress occurs and their physiology is in need of support. Many people keep searching for the best stress management tips or best stress management treatments in Dubai. However, choosing the best stress therapy is an individual process and is best supported when having different treatment options that can cater to each person’s individual needs. 
Biofeedback therapy can offer an important alternative treatment plan to stimulate the shift of the physiology from a stress state back into a regulated stress. This can be helpful as a standalone treatment option. It can also be helpful as a complementary treatment option along with other treatments for stress and stress management such as psychotherapy, craniosacral therapy and lifestyle medicine.

Why Choose BMY in Dubai for Biofeedback Therapy For Stress?

Chronic stress is one of the most challenging health issues of our time because the stressors demands on people today continue to increase. As a holistic wellness center, we believe in the body-mind connection, and we know that there is a strong correlation between chronic stress and health. As such, we are intentional about providing our clients with natural and alternative treatment options that can empower them to come into greater wellness by stimulating the natural impulse towards health within their own body. We do this by providing natural and holistic approaches that complement existing healthcare treatments, as well as providing alternative options to meet each person’s unique healthcare preferences. Because each person's health issues and stressors are different, we prioritize individualized collaborative care to support each person along their personal health journey.