Biofeedback
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Biofeedback is a technique for gaining conscious control over involuntary bodily functions. You hook yourself to a device showing a reading for a given quantity and teach yourself to increase or decrease it.
You can use this on brainwaves, muscle tone, skin conductance, heart rate and pain perception.
It's actually been found effective for the treatment of headaches and migraines.[1][2] But apart from that, it's fun and l33t to feel all cyborgy about your own nervous system.
[edit] Woo
Biofeedback involves actual observable phenomena, and that just lacks that special something. So the spiritually aware have invented "quantum" biofeedback.
[edit] See also
- Brainwave woo, its psychological cousin
[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ Nestoriuc Y, Martin A (March 2007). "Efficacy of biofeedback for migraine: a meta-analysis". Pain 128 (1-2): 111–27. doi:10.1016/j.pain.2006.09.007. PMID 17084028.
- ↑ Nestoriuc Y, Martin A, Rief W, Andrasik F (September 2008). "Biofeedback treatment for headache disorders: a comprehensive efficacy review". Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback 33 (3): 125–40.