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...just comedy, it is caustic satire, and that is what is puzzling. The pomposities of wealthy mid-Americans in 1907 are long dead and undefended. Health faddists are still abundant and deserving of mockery, but they wear Lycra now, and their spas offer aromatherapy, Nautilus machines and biofeedback. They won't recognize themselves in Boyle's mirror. The author's characters are self-evidently foolish -- the case does not need 476 pages of proving -- and so two-dimensional that there is no question of caring about them as if they had real blood and real pain. Which leaves a reader...
...from a Congress alarmed by the soaring costs of high-tech healing and the frustrating fact that so many ailments -- AIDS, cancer, arthritis, back pain -- have yet to yield to standard medicine. In the breach, Americans have turned with growing enthusiasm to an array of unorthodox remedies, including hypnosis, biofeedback, homeopathy, acupuncture and herbs. According to the New England Journal of Medicine, a third of the population today consults alternative healers, shelling out nearly $14 billion a year for their services. Most is ^ paid out of pocket, since such treatments are rarely covered by insurance. "They could be just...
...range from mild back discomfort to an amputee's agonizing phantom limb pain. While acute pain is essentially a healthy response to tissue damage, much of chronic pain is considered "neuropathic" -- the result of inappropriate nerve signals. Physicians now rely on physical therapy and behavioral techniques like biofeedback to battle chronic pain. In severe cases, they resort to antidepressants and local nerve-block injections, with varying results...
...staffers also teach relaxation techniques and use biofeedback techniques monitoring vital signs while different methods are attempted. The health center also gives out relaxation tapes to play at bedtime...
...ordinary folks, biofeedback can be a useful tool in treating dozens of ailments, from asthma to epilepsy, chronic pain to drug addiction. It is perhaps the single most effective treatment for Raynaud's disease, a condition mainly afflicting women, in which the fingers turn white, cold and painful when they are exposed to cold. A series of biofeedback sessions trains sufferers to improve circulation in their hands. Many insurers now cover biofeedback, and even some old-line hospitals offer the therapy...