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Essay Archive - Biofeedback
Biofeedback
Biofeedback therapy is a treatment technique that enables people to
use signals emitted from their own body to monitor and improve their
health. It is the "use of instrumentation to mirror psychophysiological
processes of which the individual is not normally aware and which may be
brought under voluntary control (Biofeedback pamphlet)." These processes
include heart rate, respiration, skin temperature, electrodermal response,
muscle tension and other bodily functions that are usually controlled
involuntarily. "Bio" means "life" and the word "feed back" means the return
of data to its origin. So, biofeedback is "biological inf....
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