About our e-newsletters
- Free e-newsletters
- Mayo Clinic expertise
- We do not share your e-mail address
Housecall, our weekly general-interest e-newsletter, keeps you up to date on a wide variety of health topics with timely, reliable, practical information, recipes, blogs, questions and answers with Mayo Clinic experts and more. Our biweekly topic-specific e-newsletters also include blogs, questions and answers with Mayo Clinic experts, and other useful information that will help you manage your health.
Housecall Archives
Mayo Clinic Housecall
Stay up to date on the latest health information.
What you get
- Free weekly e-newsletter
- Mayo Clinic expertise
- Recipes, tools and other helpful information
- We do not share your e-mail address
Results
By Mayo Clinic staffExperts aren't entirely sure how biofeedback works. But if biofeedback is successful for you, it may help you control symptoms of your condition or reduce the amount of medication you take. Eventually, you can practice the biofeedback techniques you learn on your own. You may need to continue with standard treatment for your condition, though.
On the downside, learning biofeedback can take a lot of time, and if it's not covered by your health insurance, it also can be expensive. In some cases, biofeedback may be no more effective than are other simpler, less expensive relaxation techniques, such as yoga.
- About biofeedback. Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. http://www.aapb.org/consumers_biofeedback.html. Accessed Dec. 1, 2009.
- Find a provider. Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. http://www.aapb.org/consumers_find.html. Accessed Dec. 1, 2009.
- Insurance coverage. Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. http://www.aapb.org/consumer_insurance.html. Accessed Dec. 1, 2009.
- Selecting a CAM practitioner. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. http://nccam.nih.gov/health/decisions/D346.pdf. Accessed Dec. 1, 2009.
- Andrasik F, et al. Biofeedback. In: Waldman SD, et al., eds. Pain Management. Philadelphia, Pa.: Saunders; 2006.
- Greenhalgh J, et al. The effects of biofeedback for the treatment of essential hypertension: A systematic review. Health Technology Assessment. 2009;13:1.
- Consumer alerts. Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback. http://www.aapb.org/alerts.html. Accessed Dec. 1, 2009
- Mann JD, et al. Biofeedback. In: Rakel D, et al. Integrative Medicine. 2nd ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Saunders; 2007.
- Mullally WJ, et al. Efficacy of biofeedback in the treatment of migraine and tension type headaches. Pain Physician. 2009;12:1005.
- What is biofeedback? Biofeedback Certification Institute of America. http://www.bcia.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=8. Accessed Dec. 22, 2009.
- Bauer BA (expert opinion). Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Dec. 22, 2009.
- Anderson CF (expert opinion). Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Dec. 22, 2009.
Find Mayo Clinic on