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Biofeedback
A technique for controlling biological
processes by using machines that gather body measurements and biological
information from patients while simultaneously feeding it back to them in a
form they can either see or hear. The subject first learns to identify the
signal and then, through trial and error, how to control the function that
triggers it.
Interest in biofeedback has increased and decreased since its start in the
1960s; at the beginning of the 21st century it is undergoing something of a
renaissance, which some attribute to the general upswing of interest in
alternative medicine methods.
Biofeedback proponents describe it as "using your mind to improve your
health," a type of complementary and alternative medicine
mind-body therapy. By using feedback from a variety of monitoring procedures
and equipment, a biofeedback specialist will try to teach you to control
certain involuntary body responses.
See
Biofeedback: A Practitioner's Guide,
Biofeedback: Principles and Practices for Clinicians,
Biofeedback Without Machines: A Strategy for Living,
Encyclopedia of Healing Therapies,
Job's Body: A Handbook for Bodywork,
Twelve Steps to Biofeedback,
The Alternative Health & Medicine Encyclopedia,
The Alternative Medicine Handbook: The Complete Reference Guide to Alternative and Complementary Therapies,
The Encyclopedia of Bodywork: From Acupressure to Zone Therapy
and
Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork: 750 Questions & Answers.
See
also
Alternative
Medicine,
Aromatherapy,
Body Cleansing,
Biofeedback,
Chelation Therapy,
Chiropractic,
Flower Essence Therapy,
Herbology,
Holistic Medicine,
Iridology,
Macrobiotics,
Massage Therapy,
Naturopathy,
Osteopathy,
Polarity Therapy,
Reflexology,
Reiki,
Rolfing,
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Sources: (1) Whorton, James C.,
Nature Cures: The History of Alternative Medicine in America,
Oxford University Press;
(2) Longe, Jacqueline L.,
The Gale Encyclopedia of
Alternative Medicine, Thomson Gale; (3)
Mysteries of Mind,
Space & Time: The Unexplained,
H. S. Stuttman Inc. Publishers.
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