Autonomic Overload

How to bring chronic tension under control

Peter Behel 4-20-2013

Have you ever encountered individuals who seem prone to maintaining muscle tension? People who despite their best efforts and yours continue to return with significant muscle rigidity, even though they may be able to experience some level of relief during an office visit? There's a good reason why some individuals seem prone to excessive muscle tightness, and learning how to detect fundamental tension-producing factors can pave the way to induce changes that provide symptom relief.

This workshop will focus on the makeup of the body's circuitry, and cover how the pain signal transmission apparatus can work to amplify pain signals and produce ongoing states of muscle contraction and rigidity. We will investigate how pain signal conduction can serve to sustain autonomic and somatic motor neuron activation, and explore somatic- based strategies for providing symptom reduction. Participants should emerge with a better understanding of how chronic tension can emerge, and how to facilitate its recovery.

Peter Behel is a biofeedback specialist who has spent 13 years specializing in the treatment of chronic pain. He began treating chronic pain patients in 1987 as a member of a multidisciplinary pain management program at Mt. Diablo Hospital Medical Center in Concord, California. He has also been involved in treatment of acute care psychiatric disorders as a member of a behavioral health treatment team at the Community Psychiatric Hospital in Santa Rosa. Peter currently sees clients at a physical rehab facility in Mill Valley, and in his private practice in Santa Rosa. He can be reached at 707-579-7982, peterbehel@earthlink.net. His website is www.PacificBio.net.