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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. It may also be triggered repeatedly over a long period of time. When this happens, negative symptoms including pain, headaches, cardiovascular problems, and insomnia can result.
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Florida is an important place for neurofeedback. It is the home of the Florida Biofeedback Society which is based in Boynton Beach, Florida. This is one of the most active biofeedback organizations in the nation. It is a resource for potential clients looking for biofeedback and neurofeedback providers. The website is http://www.floridabiofeedback.org/ They also have workshops where providers can receive training and continuing education credit. The Florida Biofeedback Society offers a membership that includes a subscription to its Florida Biofeedback publication, networking opportunities, as well as other perks.
Is biofeedback medical or educational?
Biofeedback equipment has been around since the 1960s, yet some people still don’t know about it.
Being able to use technology to help learn control over physiology has almost endless applications.
Many people have been working hard for a long time to make biofeedback more accepted by the medical system. There are physical medical applications like tension and migraine headaches, neck pain, back pain, other types of chronic pain, muscle spasm, hypertension, and asthma. There are also mental health applications like ADHD, anxiety, PTSD, and depression.
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.
