Biofeedback is a training technique in which real-time reports of the patient's involuntary actions (such as skin temperature, heart rate, sweat gland activity, respiration rate, and muscle tension), from machines that can detect a person's internal bodily functions with far greater sensitivity and precision than a person can alone, are used to increase self-awareness, improve health and performance.
The following list contains the problems most commonly assessed using psychophysiological recording techniques and treated using biofeedback based interventions which have been shown to be reasonably efficacious through research studies (www.aapb.org 2008).
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