Abstract One of the central components in the treatment of common childhood problems such as anxiety, phobia, and post-traumatic stress is relaxation training. Biofeedback has been developed as an effective means of teaching relaxation skills especially with adults. One of the challenges has been to develop biofeedback protocols that are intelligible and child-centred enough to engage children....

OBJECTIVE For patients with the most common types of urinary incontinence, first line therapy consists of behavioral treatments, such as bladder training and pelvic floor muscle exercises (PME). The patient learns to strengthen the pelvic floor musculature and to better control bladder emptying. Biofeedback itself is not a treatment for urinary incontinence, but can be used as an adjunct to pel...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) in conjunction with EMG characteristics to predict vertical jump height. This paper investigates three key areas for the development of a real-time biomechanical biofeedback system. The first area of investigation is the EMG data processing and characteristics that best suit the training of ANNs for prediction. T...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the mean integral EMG level of the masseter muscle, which was obtained from the EMG biofeedback of the frontal muscle of those patients whom once had a case of mandibular dysfunction, and to use this as an effective means of treatment. Furthermore, the correlation between the psychological characteristics of mandibular dysfunction patients and EMG bi...

In this investigation, we evaluated the effectiveness of surface electromyography (EMG) biofeedback to treat paradoxical vocal fold motion in a 16-year-old girl. EMG biofeedback training occurred once per week over the course of 10 weeks. In a changing criterion design, muscle tension showed systematic changes that corresponded with changes in the criterion. Overall, baseline muscle tension lev...

This study presents a clinical treatment regime for pathological interhemispheric dysfunction with respect to a population of learning disabled boys. The results obtained replicate and extend earlier findings with respect to operantly conditioned increases in amplitude of sensorimotor transactions and its positive effect on learning disability. Specifically, the biofeedback, and subsequent cond...

INTRODUCTION The discrimination of visual scenes is a complex task that the human mind can achieve rapidly. Using biofeedback techniques we may be able to decode neural responses to visual scenes in a real-time manner. Multivariate pattern classification and prediction offers an alternative approach to standard univariate analysis techniques, and has recently been applied in MR imaging using su...

This paper describes a new technology that blends cognitive training to anticipate the effects of stress with advanced biofeedback to mitigate stress effects and aftereffects, using a simulation-based framework. In an increasing number of military personnel, the adverse effects of service and particularly of stressful combat exposure are significant, long lasting and possibly fatal. Most stress...

PURPOSE The impact of pelvic floor muscle training on the recovery of urinary continence after radical prostatectomy is still controversial. We tested the effectiveness of biofeedback-pelvic floor muscle training in improving urinary incontinence in the 12 months following radical prostatectomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 73 patients who underwent radical prostatectomy were randomized t...