When it comes to helping your child cope with a headache condition, perhaps no other therapy is more relevant for patient and parent than biofeedback. This decades-old treatment is a scientifically proven approach used to control headache symptoms and reduce headache frequency. It is a learned skill that can be applied, when required, to alter specific responses of the body and diminish – or even stop – headache pain.

The significant factor in biofeedback training is that it does not involve drug therapy. Instead, it is an alternative approach that actually works for children – or any patient, including pregnant women – looking for non-drug therapies to control headache. It also empowers the patient to play an active and integral role in maintaining his or her health.

Trained clinicians provide thorough instruction through the therapeutic process. State-of-the-art technology is used to display body temperature and muscle activity results in real time to enable you to understand when and how you are controlling your bodily responses. Biofeedback teaches you how to control functions, such as heart rate, blood pressure and muscle tension, which once were considered to be beyond voluntary control. With daily practice, patients can be taught this voluntary control, and use it effectively. Clinical studies have shown 90% of all children who learn temperature and muscle activity (electromyographic or EMG) biofeedback techniques show significant reduction in severity, duration and frequency of headaches.