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 biofeedback 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?

• Anxiety disorders
• Tension and migraine headaches
• Myofascial pain and fibromyalgia
• Hypertension
• Irritable bowel syndrome
• Muscle tension
• Raynaud's disease

What Are the Contraindications For Biofeedback?

• Acute psychiatric emergencies
• Use as the sole treatment for management of severe hypertension