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How does biofeedback work?
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Dr. Cecilia Alailimaanswered
General Practice 35 years experience
Operant Conditioning: And learning occurs when the client is rewarded with positive audiovisual cues every time s/he changes and trends the biological measure closer to normal functioning and away from dysfunctional habits. Humans can learn to normalize blood pressure, heart rate, muscle activity (emg), stress response, and even brain wave activity (eeg) with profound effects on a wide range of common medical problems.
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Dr. Robert Stewartanswered
Clinical Psychology 46 years experience
Biofeedback: Works by feeding back information to you about your own internal biological activity. You then use that information to learn self regulation. You can't learn any skill without feedback of your performance. Biofeedback gives you information of normally unconscious functions -- muscle activity, breathing, heart rate, sweating, skin temperature, brain waves, etc. -- allowing you to regulate them.
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A 21-year-old member asked:
What is biofeedback?
2 doctor answers • 5 doctors weighed in
Dr. Cecilia Alailimaanswered
General Practice 35 years experience
Self-healing: Biofeedback is a safe, effective treatment approach that trains the patient to self-regulate abnormal biological activity toward normal functioning using positive feedback for progressive incremental changes. An appropriate biological measure (eg muscle emg, heart rate variability and even brain eeg) which best correlates with the underlying problem is monitored as the basis for training reward.
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Last updated Sep 28, 2016
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