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Biofeedback
Douglas Adams
Biofeedback, classified by NCCAM as a mind-body method,
is one of the most widely accepted modalities of the complementary
family of interventions. It is a nonpharmacological and noninvasive
approach to assist clients in altering physiological responses.
It is not painful and has few adverse reactions.
With a nearly 70 percent or better success rate of clinical
improvement, biofeedback may be considered effective in the
amelioration or reduction of symptoms such as headache, irritable
bowel disease, and hypertension with measurable outcomes.
This cost- effective modality is the treatment of choice in
many instances where the client is partnered with the health
care provider in the health restoration process. Biofeedback
can be used in conjunction with other behavioral and stress
management techniques, such as visualization, cognitive restructuring,
and autogenic training. It is a learning technique that allows
the client to become as responsible for his or her health
as the therapist, empowering the client to participate equally
with the therapist in the planning and implementation of a
therapeutic program.
Individual experience can be thought of as events that elicit
physical, emotional, and mental responses that are stored
in the body-mind. Biofeedback is the process of receiving
and using feedback about responses to events to correct problems.
It is used to help clients access their own healing potential
with self-regulatory skill acquisition. Many different biological
processes can be harnessed to provide feedback for learning.
These include temperature, heart rate, and electrical muscle
activity. Biofeedback is one of the most widely used and accepted
alternative therapies. It can be used to treat a variety of
problems, including headaches and other pain conditions, muscle
tone irregularities, and anxiety.
Douglas Adams is the owner of www.allwellbeing.com
, a website dedicated to increasing knowledge of health related
issues.
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