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Biofeedback
What
is biofeedback?
What
is the background of biofeedback?
What
are the indications for biofeedback?
What
are the contraindications for biofeedback?
What is biofeedback?
- Biofeedback can
help people become more aware of the body's internal states and learn
to self-regulate them.
- Electronic instruments
are used to amplify and display information about a person's physiologic
processes, such as skin temperature, muscle tension, blood pressure,
heart rate, and brain waves.
- This feedback helps
a person to learn ways to influence physiologic processes that are not
typically under conscious control.
- Cardiac
coherence training is a specific form of biofeeback that emphasizes
the impact of the relaxation response on the cardiovascular system.
What is the
background of biofeedback?
- Biofeedback was
first developed by experimental psychologists in the 1960s.
- Biofeedback practitioners
are trained in psychology, physiology, and the use of electronic instruments.
What are the
indications for biofeedback?
What are the
contraindications for biofeedback?
- acute psychiatric
emergencies
- use as the sole
treatment for management of severe hypertension
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