Imagine migraines becoming part of your past, and learning ways of controlling your physiology for good health — skills for a lifetime. Biofeedback for Migraines • For doctors & patients who wish to avoid medication (e.g., women of child-bearing age, children, non-responders, requests for alternatives, refractory cases, drug interactions). • 85% likelihood of substantial relief […]
Biofeedback For Hypertension. This disorder is one of the most common and vexing medical disorders in the Western world. Untreated hypertension (HT) is a contributing factor in premature death from stroke, kidney disease, and heart attack; elevated blood pressure affects some 50 million people in this country (Burt, Cutler, Higgins, Horan, Labarthe, Whelton, et al., […]
Functional Abdominal Pain (FAP) is one of a group of Functional Gastroenterological Disorders (FGD), which includes Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), and Functional Dyspepsia (FD). FAP has been identified as recurrent episodes of abdominal pain severe enough to interfere with a patient’s usual activities but it is not caused by an identifiable organic disease and is […]
Biofeedback for Epilepsy Neurofeedback was discovered as a treatment for epilepsy in the late 1960s by Barry Sterman, a UCLA physiological psychologist. He was asked to determine why fighter pilots sometimes experienced seizures while flying their planes, and discovered that it was a chemical in the jet fuel (hydrazine) which triggered the seizures. While working […]
Biofeedback for Chronic Pain. The term chronic pain covers a vast area, from very specific sites of pain to more global pain experienced by the patient all over their body. More than one-third of the population experiences chronic pain in their lives at some noticeable level (Bonica, 1992). Biofeedback has been found to help at […]
Anxiety is one of the most frequently observed categories of emotional disorders in the American population and often seriously interferes with the quality of everyday life. All of the anxiety disorders are defined by the dual characteristics of physiologic hyperarousal and excessive emotional fear. A variety of biofeedback modalities have been used in treating anxiety […]
Neurofeedback is the primary biofeedback modality for treating attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). A large amount of studies can be found in review articles by Arns, Heinrich, and Strehl (2014) and by Micouland-Franchi et. al (2014). The early term of EEG biofeedback has been updated to be called neurofeedback in most publications. A variety of protocols have been used over the […]
There are some general aspects of biofeedback treatment that are important to keep in mind. The first is that a goal of biofeedback is to train the patient to practice the exercises on their own, to develop their ability to regulate their own physiology in the service of improving their health. This aspect alone can result […]
Learning/Brain Disorders. The Brain Clinic offers several services that can treat a wide variety of illnesses and disorders related to the brain. Below are links to many of the different disorders discussed on this website. Headaches, Migraines & Chronic Pain Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD/ADHD) Learning Disabilities (LD) and Dyslexia Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Abdominal Pain […]
Pediatric migraines, also referred to as childhood headaches, tension headaches, and head pain, are much more common in children than most people think. According to recent studies that have been done, about six percent of school age children will suffer from migraines. As they progress into middle school it goes up to eleven percent, and when […]