Pain Management & Heart Rate Variability

Research consistently shows that autonomic nervous system dysfunction underlies most chronic pain conditions, including chronic neck and back pain, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, temporomandibular joint disorder, and migraines. Heart rate variability (HRV) is used to quantify autonomic nervous system dysfunction. HRV biofeedback is an effective treatment that both improves the autonomic nervous system’s ability to regulate itself and ameliorates symptoms of chronic pain. In addition, people experiencing chronic pain may seek help from multiple providers, including chiropractors and mental health professionals. Each discipline addresses chronic pain in its own way. Sometimes, approaches are complementary and can easily be integrated. Other times, the patient may feel that they are getting contradictory advice and may not know what to do. It is, therefore, imperative for providers from different disciplines to coordinate treatment and, ideally, use an approach that unifies the different approaches into a cohesive, integrated one. HRV Biofeedback is one such unifying approach. Chiropractors and mental health professionals use HRV to help ameliorate symptoms of chronic pain, regulate the functioning of the autonomic nervous system, and improve functioning. In this webinar, participants will have an opportunity to hear from providers of both of these disciplines on the approach they each take for treating chronic pain while using HRV biofeedback as a central unifying focus.

Event Venue

Online