Word: biofeedback
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conservative treatment regimen that includes a switch to a softer diet (no steak or chewy candy, for example); application of warm, moist heat; facial massages; and exercises to stretch tight muscles. Aspirin, muscle relaxants, tranquilizers and antidepressants may be prescribed. Counseling on stress management and relaxation techniques like biofeedback is often part of the treatment...
...told two years ago after disc-removal surgery that nothing could be done to alleviate my agony. Three weeks as an inpatient at St. Louis University's Pain Management Program taught me how to live with my pain through such methods as biofeedback, physical therapy, exercise and relaxation. I now attend biweekly meetings of the local chapter of Chronic Pain Outreach, a nonprofit support group that provides speakers who help us cope with our problems. Robert C. Lucas Brentwood...
...hypnosis and biofeedback have "earned respectable places in the pain-clinic arsenal," while chiropractors get lumped "outside standard medicine" with herbal treatments and faith healing. Thanks to my chiropractor, I am virtually pain-free today because he knew where to look when "medical doctors" failed me. Barbara J. Knill Lakewood, Ohio...
Hypnosis, biofeedback and TENS stimulation, once considered "fringe" methods of treatment, have earned respectable places in the pain clinic arsenal. Acupuncture, which tends to give only temporary analgesia, has a smaller following. According to Bonica, TENS provides significant short-term relief for 65% to 80% of patients and long-term relief for 30% to 35%. The electrical stimulating devices are widely available at costs ranging from $60 to $400. Biofeedback...
...Psychophysiologist Richard Sherman, of Dwight David Eisenhower Army Medical Center in Fort Gordon, Ga., has found that the pain, which afflicts about 80% of amputees at one time or another, is sometimes due to muscle spasms in the stump. When Sherman teaches patients to relax the affected muscles through biofeedback training, the sensations in the phantom limb usually disappear...