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One newsletter you'll want is one from an organization catering to consumers of biofeedback therapy. Biofeedback is a form of alternative medicine that gives the patient signals of certain vital signs or bodily functions. Patients use this feedback to gain control over involuntary body movements or functions. If you suffer from... more »
Biofeedback is a technique with increasingly positive results and correlating popularity. The patient is hooked up to a series of sensors that detect a range of physiological activity; this enables the natural treatment of migraines, hypertension and many other disorders. more »
Biofeedback is a teaching tool that can help you become aware of, recognize, and manage stress and tension in your body that can exacerbate pain, mental suffering and other negative reflexes. Rather than a cure, biofeedback is a method for treating a variety of physical and mental ailments. It does not replace but is used in addition... more »
Biofeedback therapy is one alternative medicine discipline available to help patients deal with ongoing medical conditions without the invasiveness of surgical or medicinal remedies. Biofeedback therapy feeds real time signals about bodily functions back to patients, so they can be taught to alter bodily activities to minimize or... more »
Biofeedback is a healing method based on personal awareness of your own physiological responses. During stressful times, our bodies react a certain way, causing blood pressure and skin temperature to raise and sweat production and muscle tension to increase. Feedback helps you become aware of the body’s responses and then... more »
Biofeedback can help people gain some control over physiological functions like heart rate,...
Although it's been around since the 1960s, Biofeedback has only enjoyed a renewed interest since the turn of this century. A variety of therapists... more »
While some people continue to dismiss biofeedback as pseudo-medicine, it has shown to be a true alternative therapy for numerous conditions. The... more »
Biofeedback allows participants to change their body's functions based on information received through heart, lung, skin temperature and brain... more »
Biofeedback enables people to learn about their body's functions and then learn how to control them. Practitioners hook participants up to... more »
Biofeedback is a form of alternative medicine where a patient uses various machines to monitor certain aspects of their body's function to become... more »
Biofeedback is a non-medical process that involves measuring a subjects specific and quantifiable bodily functions such as blood pressure, heart rate, skin temperature, sweat gland activity, and muscle tension, conveying the information to the patient in real-time. This raises the patients awareness and therefore the possibility of conscious control of those functions.
By providing the user access to physiological information about which he or she may be unaware, biofeedback may allow users to gain control of physical processes previously considered an automatic response of the autonomous nervous system. Interest in biofeedback has waxed and waned since its inception in the 1960s; it is, however, undergoing something of a renaissance during the early 21st century, which some experts attribute to the general rise in interest about all alternative medicine modalities. Small biofeedback machines are becoming available for use in the home.
The "Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback", or "AAPB" is a non-profit scientific and professional society for biofeedback practitioners. Originally called "The Biofeedback Research Society", its name was first changed to the "Biofeedback Society of America," and then it was once again changed to its latest name.
Origins
Donald Shearn first demonstrated biofeedback using operant conditioning of heart rate. (1962). Neal Miller later used this procedure, and hypothesized that any measurable physiological behavior within the human body would respond in some way to voluntary control.
DiCara & Miller (1968) found that by stimulating the pleasure center of a paralyzed rats brain with electricity thereby rewarding them with something that might make them act in some way to make the physiological changes, it was possible to train them to control phenomena ranging from their heart rate to their blood pressure and body temperature DiCara, L.V. & Miller, N.E. (1968). Instrumental learning of read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofeedback
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