Biofeedback: What Works

Following are summaries of a few well-designed, representative studies:

• In a review of studies by Dr. Jeanne Achterberg for the NIH in 1992, biofeedback was found to be efficacious for over 150 conditions.
  
  
• During a 1996 study by Dr. Angel McGrady of the Medical College of Ohio, patients with insulin-dependent diabetes were able to improve blood sugar stability.
  
  
• From a 1997 study by Nakao in Japan, hypertension patients using biofeedback learned to reduce stress-related increases in blood pressure.
  
  
• Following a fifteen-month study of asthmatics by Dr. Erik Peper and colleagues at San Francisco State University, biofeedback patients suffered fewer attacks and used less medicine.

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From THE BEST ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE: WHAT WORKS? WHAT DOES NOT? by Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier.
Copyright © 2000 by Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier, Inc.
Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, New York.

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