Biofeedback has long been considered an alternative health modality, far from mainstream medical acceptance. Times are changing!
The US government’s Bureau of Veteran Affairs is now using biofeedback therapy to treat veterans for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. They are finding biofeedback to be increasingly useful as a vital tool to fight this insidious condition that frequently plagues returning combat soldiers from the field.
John Arena, lead psychologist for the Veterans’ Affairs Center in Augusta, Georgia, acknowledges that biofeedback therapy is a very “radical” type of treatment that is nevertheless becoming “more and more mainstream” to the extent that it is now accepted as “part of regular medicine.”
Arena is also President of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback.
Additionally, Dr. Arena has found biofeedback to be very effective in treating chronic pain and high levels of stress by helping patients learn to monitor and take control over their own body’s reactions to environmental stressors.
He has found that patients can also reduce headaches and anxiety due to higher levels of muscle tension.
How Does Biofeedback Treatment Work?
Sensors are connected via small straps to a person’s wrists, forehead or ankles while a biofeedback device measures muscles tension, heart rate, temperature, brain wave activity, blood pressure, and / or, in the case of the SCIO / EPFX, the frequencies of bodily responses and activity.
By measuring the biofeedback information transmitted via these connectors, the practitioner can read their bodies’ reactions and use this information to help people manage body stimulus reactions.
Good News…
The best news is that biofeedback and SCIO / EPFX sessions are noninvasive and gentle, having long lasting effects due to the patient’s newfound ability to have an effect on his own pain and stress levels. This can lessen the need for large doses of pharmaceutical drugs, thereby reducing drug induced side effects.
Professional Certification
Carmen Russoniello, an associate professor and director of a biofeedback center at East Carolina University, recommends that people seek professional biofeedback practitioners who are well trained, certified and “understand the equipment and techniques involved.”
If you have any questions, please feel free to email or call us. We would love the opportunity to see if we can help with stress relief health issues.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Thanks to MSN and Health Day for their source material.
Biofeedback
Biofeedback has long been considered an alternative health modality, far from mainstream medical acceptance. Times are changing!
The US government’s Bureau of Veteran Affairs is now using biofeedback therapy to treat veterans for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. They are finding biofeedback to be increasingly useful as a vital tool to fight this insidious condition that frequently plagues returning combat soldiers from the field.
John Arena, lead psychologist for the Veterans’ Affairs Center in Augusta, Georgia, acknowledges that biofeedback therapy is a very “radical” type of treatment that is nevertheless becoming “more and more mainstream” to the extent that it is now accepted as “part of regular medicine.”
Arena is also President of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback.
Additionally, Dr. Arena has found biofeedback to be very effective in treating chronic pain and high levels of stress by helping patients learn to monitor and take control over their own body’s reactions to environmental stressors.
He has found that patients can also reduce headaches and anxiety due to higher levels of muscle tension.
How Does Biofeedback Treatment Work?
Sensors are connected via small straps to a person’s wrists, forehead or ankles while a biofeedback device measures muscles tension, heart rate, temperature, brain wave activity, blood pressure, and / or, in the case of the SCIO / EPFX, the frequencies of bodily responses and activity.
By measuring the biofeedback information transmitted via these connectors, the practitioner can read their bodies’ reactions and use this information to help people manage body stimulus reactions.
Good News…
The best news is that biofeedback and SCIO / EPFX sessions are noninvasive and gentle, having long lasting effects due to the patient’s newfound ability to have an effect on his own pain and stress levels. This can lessen the need for large doses of pharmaceutical drugs, thereby reducing drug induced side effects.
Professional Certification
Carmen Russoniello, an associate professor and director of a biofeedback center at East Carolina University, recommends that people seek professional biofeedback practitioners who are well trained, certified and “understand the equipment and techniques involved.”
If you have any questions, please feel free to email or call us. We would love the opportunity to see if we can help with stress relief health issues.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Thanks to MSN and Health Day for their source material.