Biofeedback, Medical Or Educational?

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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.

The Biofeedback Certification International Alliance (BCIA) provides certification for those meeting their established requirements including education, experience, mentoring, and a written exam to evidence their qualifications to provide biofeedback professionally. The Association for Applied Psychophysiology & Biofeedback is a professional association for people who provide biofeedback. They offer education, hold an annual conference, and publish a magazine and scientific journal as well as books on ...
... the subject. All of this has helped biofeedback to become accepted by the physical and medical fields to a degree. Many of us in the field of biofeedback are still disappointed in the reluctance of some insurance companies to reimburse health care professionals for providing biofeedback to their clients. This sometimes discourages people from providing biofeedback in their practices purely financial reasons. I have actually had doctors tell me that they believe biofeedback is really good for their patients but they aren’t doing it because one of the main insurance carriers their patients have doesn’t reimburse for it. This is a shame. If a therapy is effective, healthcare providers should be able to be paid for providing it. This fight continues.

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