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Where is biofeedback training available in New York? That depends on what part of New York you are talking about and what kind of biofeedback training you are talking about.
New York is more than one place. New York City is very different than Buffalo or Rochester. Some parts of the state look more like the south than the city.
The other thing is, are you looking for training as a client or patient or as a student so that you can learn how to provide services?
A biofeedback instrument is a device that uses sensors to measure a signal from the body related to your nervous system that then shows you the information as it is being measured. It is different than getting your blood pressure checked or taking your pulse and getting one reading for one moment in time. The measurement and feedback of information are continuous.
This information can be used for monitoring and might not even be shown to the person that it is being measured from. This is sometimes done in research. Let’s say a researcher wants to find out how a person’s body reacts to watching a scary movie or counting backward by 7’s. They could attach sensors to a subject and monitor signals like heart rate or sweat activity to acquire a measurement related to the physiological reaction of the stimulus. When used in this way it would be more accurate to refer to the process as physiological monitoring instead of biofeedback.
Veterans are given honor for their service in many settings. One example I notice is when I am traveling by air. Veterans are thanked for their service and are allowed to board before other passengers. They are also honored on Veterans Day. They deserve it for their sacrifice to serve our country.
Many of them pay a great price and suffer with lingering physical and mental symptoms related to their service. Some of the symptoms that I am aware of that some veterans live with include Anxiety, PTSD, Chronic Pain, Headaches, Insomnia, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and substance dependance/abuse.
There are several options for people who are interested in receiving training in biofeedback and neurofeedback for certification through the BCIA (Biofeedback Certification International Alliance). Each has pros and cons. I will discuss several options in this article.
Stress is unavoidable, right? That is a practical reality. We can’t totally avoid stress as long as we are alive in this world. We can reduce our exposure to stress. We can counteract stress by doing relaxation exercises, yoga, exercise, meditation, and other things like biofeedback.
Why is it worth the effort to reduce or manage stress? Here are a few reasons.
Concussions happen in many ways including sports and motor vehicle accidents, slip and falls, military blast injuries, and physical assaults. Effective treatment methods are limited. Because a concussion involves an injury to the brain, it makes sense that therapies should involve the brain. Neurofeedback training is a therapy that helps to regulate dysfunctional activity in the brain that might be causing symptoms.
When the brain operates it produces electric impulses that can be measured by neurofeedback instruments. These instruments then display the information from various parts of the brain. If the information shows that the brain is not functioning normally, the software can encourage the brain to go back to functioning in a more effective way. With this neurofeedback training symptoms tend to resolve.
If you are a psychologist in the United States of America, depending on which state you are licensed in, you may need a few or a large number of continuing education credits each year to maintain your license.
There are many topics to choose from to study. Some are an absolute must like ethics. Others are optional. Since subjects like brain plasticity and the poly vagal theory have really taken off over the last several years, subjects that incorporate mind body technology and therapy have become of more interest to psychologists.
Psychologists and psychotherapists are not all just having people sit in a chair or lay on a couch to just have people talk to them about their problems. They are using evidence-based, science-based tools to help them address the body as well as the mind. Science is proving that the body is involved in problems like anxiety, PTSD, and trauma. It’s not all in the mind. The mind has to work through the brain, so problems of the mind also involve the brain. Neurofeedback is among the tools that can be used to affect the brain. Encouraging the brain to increase or decrease various signals that can be picked up with neurofeedback equipment can help to train the brain to decrease unhealthy patterns that may be related to clinical symptoms.
Stress is a problem that we all experience. It is not getting less, if anything it may be increasing. Recent political and racial tension and the current pandemic have added layers to the stress that we all have been already living with.
Here are a few things you can do to reduce the negative effects of stress on your physical and mental health.
Reduce your exposure to stress. Identify sources of stress in your life. This includes people, places, and things. Note the ones that you can make choices about that will reduce your stress. There may be people that you feel stressed around. Even though you may still need to spend time around them, you may be able to arrange to spend less time around them.
There is a lot of talk about stress these days. First of all, here is how dictionary.com defines stress.
In this article, I am going to be focusing on number 5, the mental or emotional strain or tension definition. Stress tends to trigger the fight, flight, or flee response which is supposed to be an emergency state which lasts for only a short time. When there is not a short-term emergency requiring a physical response then the state can last for a long time and even become chronic. It may also be triggered repeatedly over a long period of time. When this happens, negative symptoms can result. Here are just a few of the negative symptoms that can develop as a result of mental or emotional stress.
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