biofeedback..using your mind to improve your health

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I was reading my email and my attention was caught by an email that was sent to me by mayo clinic.com i had made a subscription on their weekly house call bulletin which i think very useful especially on the diseases and symptoms.. and had read the following for your information and guidance: Biofeedback is a type of complementary and alternative medicine called mind-body therapy. It's designed to enable you — in mind-over-matter fashion — to use your thoughts and will to control your body. Biofeedback is based on the idea, confirmed by scientific studies, that people have the innate potential to influence with their minds many of the automatic, involuntary functions of their bodies. To help you develop this ability, a biofeedback specialist uses signals from special monitoring equipment to teach you to control certain body functions and their responses, such as: * Brain activity * Blood pressure * Muscle tension * Heart rate * Skin temperature * Sweat gland activity You can use biofeedback to help treat many physical and mental health problems when you've learned to recognize and control these functions and responses. useful in treating stress-related conditions, and clinical trials are evaluating it in the treatment of many other conditions, including: * Asthma * Headaches * Hot flashes * Raynaud's disease * Irritable bowel syndrome * Nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy * Irregular heartbeats (cardiac arrhythmias) * Chronic low back pain * Chronic constipation * High blood pressure * Incontinence * Epilepsy You can receive biofeedback training in physical therapy clinics, medical centers and hospitals. A growing number of feedback devices and programs are being marketed for home use as well. But working with a therapist, initially, may provide the best long-term results. excerpts from: mayoclinic.com