A NOVAH SERVICE
Biofeedback Therapy
Technology that makes the invisible visible — showing you, in real time, how stress and tension live in your body, and helping you learn to calm them.
One discipline in your coordinated Novah plan — where mind and body meet on a screen.
See what your body is doing
Biofeedback is a non-invasive therapy that measures your body’s responses — muscle tension, breathing, blood flow and temperature — and displays them on a screen in real time. Seeing those signals as they happen, you can learn to recognize and change them: releasing tension, slowing your breath, and calming the stress responses that feed pain.
At Novah, biofeedback is one part of a plan that treats the whole person — and it’s one of the clearest places where the mind-body connection becomes something you can actually see.
WHERE IT FITS
One part of a bigger plan
Resilience starts with awareness — noticing how your body responds before you can change it. Biofeedback gives you that awareness directly: the screen shows the tension you might not have felt, the stress you’d learned to ignore.
From there you build a lasting skill — the ability to calm your own body — that stays with you long after the session ends. It’s one of the ways we help you meet the load of pain with more capacity to handle it, coordinated with the rest of your care around one plan.
What to expect
See your body in real time
Sensors measure your muscle tension, breathing and other responses, and show you — on screen — how your body reacts to your movements, thoughts and emotions.
Build awareness
With your therapist, you learn to read those signals and notice patterns you couldn’t feel before — the moment tension creeps in, the effect of a stressful thought.
Learn what works, for you
Your therapist draws on pain education and relaxation strategies to help you change how you respond to pain and stress, and on body-mechanics principles to adjust your posture and movement. Because your responses are measured live, you can see which strategies seem to help your body.
Take the skill with you
The goal is for you to carry these self-regulation skills into daily life — calming tension and stress on your own, without the screen.
WHAT IT CAN HELP WITH
Reasons people seek biofeedback
It may be able to help with:
Tension-type headaches Muscle tension & teeth grinding (bruxism) Neck, shoulder & jaw tension linked to stress Fibromyalgia & chronic pain Repetitive strain injuries Stress-related muscle tension and pain
Need help now? If you’re in crisis or need urgent support, you don’t have to wait for an appointment. Call or text 9-8-8 (Suicide Crisis Helpline) any time, or 9-1-1 in an emergency.
THE NOVAH DIFFERENCE
Where mind and body meet
Biofeedback is Novah’s philosophy made literal: it brings the psychological and physical sides of pain together in a single session, on a single screen. It doesn’t just address a symptom — it teaches you something about yourself that you keep. Our goal isn’t only to ease today’s tension, but to give you a skill, and a recognition of your experience, that builds resilience for the long term.