Facts About Biofeedback
- From the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback
 
- Biofeedback is a safe, effective, cost-effective, and non-invasive procedure.
- Biofeedback
is used to control functional disorders wherein
physiological measures are monitored and transformed into simple
auditory or visual information. The trainee learns to control and
modify the physiological response being measured, bring it back to a
healthy level of functioning.
- Biofeedback is successfully used with symptoms and health problems such as chronic pain,
tension headache and migraine, sleep disturbance and insomnia,
hypertension, anxiety, depression, GI problems, Raynaud's disease,
stroke rehabilitation, Attention Deficit Disorder, and stress-related disorders.
- Biofeedback frequently enhances the effectiveness of other treatments
when used in conjunction with other therapies and makes patients more
aware of their own role in health and disease prevention.
- Stress
costs untold millions of dollars in health care and lost time from
work. Biofeedback provides training in self-care, shifting
responsibility for health to the patient.
- Biofeedback is done by qualified professionals from many disciplines.
-
Board Certification in Biofeedback exists in which competency
requirements must be met by way for both written and practical exams.
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