Word: biofeedback
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Starting today, the weekly lectures will take place Fridays at noon beginning with mediation, covering aromatherapy next week, biofeedback Oct. 23, yoga Oct. 30, herbal remedies on Nov. 6 and Feldenkrais (a movement technique...
Today she is covered by Harvard's domesticpartner benefits program. Her migraines recur onlyonce a month thanks to biofeedback therapy and newglasses, which she could not afford without theplan...
Readers of Spontaneous Healing and 8 Weeks to Optimum Health are introduced to very little they haven't heard about before from other self-styled healers, including exceedingly familiar treatments like biofeedback and gingerroot, alternative medicine's universal solvents in which virtually all sickness is said to dissolve. No matter how many times consumers have been shown this shopping list of cures before, however, only a comparatively small percentage of them have expressed any interest. When Weil shows it to them, they tend to buy. Weil thinks he knows...
...winning both popularity with patients and acceptance (or at least increased tolerance) among physicians. As modern medicine moves on to new frontiers, it is uneasily accompanied by a camp following of nonconventional, unorthodox medical practices. Some of them have been around for hundreds, even thousands, of years; others, like biofeedback, are modern techniques that have found useful niches alongside orthodox medicine...
Insurers too have begun to take notice. Several pay for acupuncture, biofeedback and massage, if prescribed by a physician. One company, American Western Life of Foster City, California, covers a wide range of treatments under a pioneering wellness program. Twenty others even cover Dr. Dean Ornish's yoga, meditation and diet program for reversing coronary heart disease. Says Ornish: "When you compare the cost of an angioplasty to the cost of this program, the insurers are saving $5.55 for every dollar they spend. Moreover, 90% of the people recommended for bypass have been able to avoid it." Chiropractors, long...