What is Biofeedback?,Biofeedback is information,Major types of biofeedback

2. What is Biofeedback?

3.  A therapeutic procedure which uses electronic
or electromechanical instruments to accurately
measure, process, and feedback reinforcing
information via auditory or visual signals.
 Used to help patient develop greater voluntary
control of either neuromuscular relaxation or
muscle re-education following injury.
 Biofeedback is a technique that gained
popularity in the late 1960s.
 Most people’s exposure to biofeedback is from
polygraph tests shown on television shows

4. 1. Biofeedback displays your performance
back to you.
2. You probably use biofeedback every day
without recognizing it.
3. You receive weight biofeedback whenever you step
on a bathroom scale.
4. You obtain heart rate biofeedback after
a run using a watch and your index finger.

6. Six major types of biofeedback include:
 Heart rate variability (HRV) biofeedback
 Muscle biofeedback
 Neurofeedback
 Respiratory biofeedback
 Sweat gland biofeedback
 Temperature biofeedback

7.  Designed to monitor some physiologic event,
objectively quantify these monitorings, and interpret
the measurements
 Biofeedback units cannot directly measure a
physiologic event but they record some aspect which is
highly correlated with the physiologic event
 Biofeedback reading gives an indication of a
physiological process but should not be confused
with the physiological process itself

8. Feedback
Person
Detection,
Amplification
Signal
conditioning
Program
logic Recording
Feedback
signal
processingAuditory - variety of sounds
Visual - numbers, meters, lights
Sensors

9.  Clinical biofeedback, to strengthen the conditioned
response, combines sophisticated technology and various
other forms of relaxation, including:
 diaphragmatic breathing
 autogenic training
 progressive muscular relaxation
 mental imagery
 There are several types of clinical biofeedback, each
monitoring a specific physiological system; these are:
 electromyography (EMG)
 electroencephalography (EEG)
 electrocardiography (EKG)
 electro dermal (EDR

10. Biofeedback provides you with
the opportunity to take control of
your health and to choose skills
instead of pills.