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 Overview
Biofeedback
is a treatment method that uses monitoring instruments to feed back
to patients physiological information of which they are normally
unaware. By watching the monitoring device, patients can learn by
trial and error to adjust their thinking and other mental processes
in order to control bodily processes heretofore thought to be involuntary--such
as blood pressure, temperature, gastrointestinal functioning, and
brain wave activity.
Biofeedback
is used to treat a very wide variety of conditions and diseases,
ranging from stress, alcohol and other addictions, sleep disorders,
epilepsy, respiratory problems, and fecal and urinary incontinence
to muscle spasms, partial paralysis, or muscle dysfunction caused
by injury, migraine headaches, hypertension, and a variety of
vascular disorders. More applications are being developed yearly.
Adapted
from Alternative Medicine: Expanding Medical Horizons, a report
prepared under the auspices of the Workshop on Alternative Medicine,
held in Chantilly VA on September 14-16, 1992.
Copyright 2000. National Institute of Health, All Rights Reserved.
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