Hi Charmed,

We are so glad to see you are still with us. I have not yet experienced the biofeedback but if I understand it correctly, It is a harmless proceedure of wire electrodes on your head and chest to monitor your bodies responces to certain imigery or sounds to help teach you what triggers your high stress and anxioties and to help you learn how to control your reactions and maintain a lower level and become relaxed. Kinda like teaching your body to concentrate and meditate to be in a more relaxed state through high pain and stress days. I have heard it is a wonderful tool for you and works really well. I probably am not explaining it well enough and others here can give more detail. I think there is a link on the board about it. Look on the general board. You may have to go back a week or two.

Hope to see more of you on here.

 

Tami

Actually Tami explained Bio Feedback pretty well, I have been thru a learning session with bio feedback. Tami is right, they hook up sensors around different points on your body that read when your body muscles tighten up or your stress level goes up. During a feedback test the testor will usually ask you a couple of things(usually bout w/c...lol) that the testor knows will turn up your stress, then they show you what it looks loke on the feedback machine...it measures small voltages, the higher the voltage the higher the pain or stress causing pain. Then the testor will give you some ideas of relaxing and then you get to see how low your voltage readings are when you are not stressed or angry and you will notice a difference in the pain. Mainly bio feedback teaches you to know what turns you up and what brings your pain level down and those are pretty good tools to have in your box of pain relief :) Bio feedback is fun, not painfull at all...completely painless and you will learn how to turn the pain down by your self...I recomend it to everyone..Learn how to really relax!

Franknberrie

Hi Ladojo,

 Well, if the pre trial confrence is a settlement confrence I would definitly go. I went to all of those hearings tho, pre trial confrences, settlement confrences ect. I went because so many things go on behind your back you will never hear about...I vote go! But , you may not have to if it isnt for settlement reasons.

 No body is more disgusted than a workmans comp system to me, I dont trust anything they do and I dont recomend anybody trusting them. Work comp does not care about you....just the numbers, and they want to keep as much as possible. Hate to say it but most w/c lawyers work for the insurance company too...who pays them in the end? Thats right, the comp insurance company does! It hard to find an honest lawyer who actually cares about their clients, you are just a dollar amount to you as well...most of them, not all tho

 Dont be afraid to ask your lawyer questions, that is why he is getting part of your settlement. And another thing, dont take their first offer. If the insurance company says they have a specialist who will find you a job is another scam the insurers use. Whe it came time for me to see that guy he found 10 jobs he said I could do even theo my Dr made it very clear I could not usr my arms any more at all, one of the jobs was at a local parts store(because I was a Ford Tech all of my life) Well, I haddnt been on that part of town for a long time, just to find out that the parts store had been closed for 5 years! My lawyer had fun in court with that work specialist when he ask him how I was supposed to go to work at a place that didnt excist. I checked ot the 9 other jobs he said he found for me and he actually only contacted about 1/2 of them and he lied to them as to my severely crippled RSD arms....a couple of the places were aftrad to even talk to me when I told them I had RSD in my arms and working with them will just agrivate the problem. Personally, I wouldnt miss anything! I didnt and I gave them back as much as they give me!

Hi Phil,

Its good to see you on here. I think you're right. We probably should put a link on here about the bio-feedback and we welcome any other suggestions you might have to help the group. I am not very computer savy but I am working on a few changes for the group and the boards. I don't have a lot of time to work on them so it is kinda slow and I will add this suggestion to my list because I believe it would be very helpful. If you have any links or information to add on the subject please email it to me.

 

Thanks so much for the idea!

Tami