Psychological therapies for the management of migraine in adults
Skills include coping strategies, or biofeedback or relaxation, which teaches people to reduce their tension either by concentrating on relaxing exercises or through a machine that gives feedback about...
View ArticleInterventions to improve arm and hand function in people after stroke
task practice; high-quality RCTs to explore the effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), tDCS, hands-on therapy, music therapy, pharmacological interventions and interventions...
View ArticleDo psychological therapies help diabetic foot ulcers to heal and prevent...
One RCT used a biofeedback relaxation training intervention and one used a psychosocial intervention based on cognitive behavioural therapy. A quasi-RCT assessed motivation and tailored the...
View ArticleTreatments for urinary incontinence after stroke in adults
Combined intervention versus single intervention One trial compared a combined intervention (sensory motor biofeedback plus timed prompted voiding) against a single intervention (timed...
View ArticlePsychological therapies for the management of chronic and recurrent pain in...
Psychological therapies (e.g. relaxation, hypnosis, coping skills training, biofeedback, and cognitive behavioural therapy) may help people manage pain and its disabling...
View ArticleDoes giving people feedback on the effects of smoking on their body help them...
We pooled trials in three categories according to the type of biofeedback provided: feedback on risk exposure (five studies); feedback on smoking-related disease risk (five studies); and feedback on...
View ArticleExercise for Neck Pain
For chronic cervicogenic headache, moderate quality evidence supports static-dynamic cervico-scapulothoracic strengthening/endurance exercises including pressure biofeedback immediate post treatment...
View ArticleExercise for fibromyalgia
Although exercise is part of the overall management of fibromyalgia, this review examined the effects of exercise when used separately or combined with other strategies such as education programs,...
View ArticlePhysical treatments for idiopathic facial paralysis
Physical therapies, such as exercise, biofeedback, laser treatment, electrotherapy, massage and thermotherapy, are used to hasten recovery, improve facial function and minimise...
View ArticleTreating persistent pain in torture survivors
Despite the search including any intervention, only two types were represented in the eligible studies: two trials used cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) with biofeedback versus waiting list on...
View ArticleAnticholinergic drugs versus non-drug active therapies for overactive bladder...
Non-pharmacologic therapies consist of bladder training, pelvic floor muscle training with or without biofeedback, behavioural modification, electrical stimulation and surgical...
View ArticleDialysate temperature reduction for intradialytic hypotension for people with...
Several clinical studies suggested that reduction of dialysate temperature, such as fixed reduction of dialysate temperature or isothermal dialysate using a biofeedback system, might improve the IDH...
View ArticleElectrical stimulation with non-implanted electrodes for urinary incontinence...
Four trials evaluated the effect of adding PFMT to ES versus pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) alone or with...
View ArticleBreathing exercises for dysfunctional breathing/hyperventilation syndrome
We considered any type of breathing exercise for inclusion in this review, such as breathing control, diaphragmatic breathing, yoga breathing, Buteyko breathing, biofeedback-guided breathing...
View ArticleBehavioural treatment for chronic low-back pain
external factors associated with pain can reinforce it), (ii) cognitive (dealing with thoughts, feelings, beliefs, or a combination of the three, that trigger the pain), (iii) respondent (interrupts...
View ArticleIs breathing retraining useful in the treatment of children with...
We considered any type of breathing retraining exercise for inclusion in this review, such as breathing control, diaphragmatic breathing, yoga breathing, Buteyko breathing, biofeedback-guided breathing...
View ArticleRelaxation for perimenopausal and postmenopausal symptoms
results: Four studies were eligible for inclusion (281 participants): Two studies compared relaxation with electroacupuncture or superficial needling, one study compared relaxation with paced...
View ArticleSterile water injections for the relief of pain in labour
Potential comparators were placebo (saline) and non-pharmacological interventions (e.g. hypnosis or biofeedback). Data collection and analysis: Two review authors independently assessed eligibility...
View ArticleMind-body interventions during pregnancy for preventing or treating women's...
Mind-body interventions include: autogenic training, biofeedback, hypnotherapy, imagery, meditation, prayer, auto-suggestion, tai-chi and...
View ArticleAdvice on material handling techniques and using assistive devices to prevent...
The intensity of training ranged from a single educational session to very extensive personal biofeedback. Six RCTs had a high risk of bias. None of the included studies showed evidence of a preventive...
View ArticleInterventions for treating functional dysphonia in adults
The combined therapy with biofeedback was not shown to be more effective than combined therapy alone in one study nor was pharmacological treatment found to be more effective than vocal hygiene...
View ArticleNon-pharmacological interventions for people with epilepsy and intellectual...
. • Psychological interventions for patients or for patients and carers/parents, for example, cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), electroencephalographic (EEG) biofeedback and educational...
View ArticleBehavioural interventions for dysmenorrhoea
Also that pain management training and relaxation plus biofeedback may help with period pain in general. The results are not conclusive due to the small number of women in the trials and the poor...
View ArticleNon-invasive electrical stimulation for overactive bladder in adults
Low- or very low-quality evidence suggested no evidence of a difference in perception of improvement of UUI when ES was compared to PFMT with or without biofeedback....There was inconclusive evidence,...
View ArticleE-health interventions for anxiety and depression in children and adolescents...
improves, and therapies become available on computers and mobile telephones, e-health interventions (delivered by digital means and ranging from simple text-based programmes through to multimedia and...
View ArticleConservative (non-pharmaceutical and non-surgical) treatments for children...
Combined conservative interventions versus other combined conservative interventions TENS and standard urotherapy versus PFMT with electromyographic biofeedback and standard urotherapy....PFMT with...
View ArticleComplementary and alternative therapies for pain management in labour
Selection criteria: The inclusion criteria included published and unpublished randomised controlled trials comparing complementary and alternative therapies (but not biofeedback) with placebo, no...
View ArticleMixed exercise programmes for adults with fibromyalgia
Other - Reviewers found no evidence that the benefits and harms of mixed exercise were any different from education programmes, cognitive-behavioural training, biofeedback, medication, or other types...
View ArticleGuided imagery for treating hypertension in pregnancy
The other study involved guided imagery, self-monitoring of blood pressure, and thermal biofeedback-assisted relaxation training for a total of four hours; the women were instructed to practice the...
View ArticleInterventions to enhance return-to-work for cancer patients
The fourth kind concerned multidisciplinary interventions in which vocational counselling, patient education, patient counselling, biofeedback-assisted behavioral training and/or physical exercises...
View ArticlePain management for women in labour – an overview
There was insufficient evidence to make a judgement on whether or not hypnosis, biofeedback, sterile water injection, aromatherapy, and TENS are effective for pain relief in labour. Overall, there were...
View ArticleSurgery for faecal incontinence in adults
Treatment options include conservative, non-operative interventions (for example pelvic floor muscle training, biofeedback, drugs) and surgical procedures....anterior levatorplasty versus postanal...
View Article[Non-pharmacological interventions for chronic pain in multiple sclerosis]
The non-pharmacological interventions evaluated included: transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), psychotherapy (telephone self-management, hypnosis and electroencephalogram (EEG)...
View ArticleMeditation therapy for anxiety disorders
Both studies were of moderate quality and used active control comparisons (another type of meditation, relaxation, biofeedback). Anti-anxiety drugs were used as standard treatment. The duration of...
View ArticlePsychological treatments to help individuals with cystic fibrosis and their...
psychological interventions, including psychological methods within the scope of psychotherapeutic or psychosomatic mechanism of action (e.g. cognitive behavioural, cognitive, family systems or...
View ArticleConservative management for men with urinary incontinence after prostate surgery
Conservative treatments of the leakage such as pelvic floor muscle training with or without biofeedback or anal electrical stimulation are thought to help men control this leakage....Conservative...
View ArticleInterventions focusing on the link between the mind and body for adults with...
Mind-body interventions include treatments such as biofeedback, mindfulness, movement therapies, psychological therapy and relaxation therapies....More people withdrew from the biofeedback than the...
View ArticleBladder training for urinary incontinence in adults
Two comparisons of bladder training with pelvic floor muscle training plus biofeedback included 164 women: none of the differences in the primary outcomes achieved statistical significance....One trial...
View ArticleElectrical stimulation for faecal incontinence in adults
Findings from one trial suggest that electrical stimulation with anal biofeedback and exercises provides more short-term benefits than vaginal biofeedback and exercises for women with obstetric-related...
View ArticleBehavioural interventions for the treatment of faecal incontinence in children
Biofeedback is a technique that can be used to teach children how to control the muscles around their back passage. This review identified 21 studies with a total of 1371 children....Children who...
View ArticleExercises of the muscles around the anus with or without biofeedback (aids...
Anal sphincter exercises (pelvic floor muscle training) and biofeedback therapy have been used to treat the symptoms of people with faecal incontinence....One small trial showed that biofeedback plus...
View ArticleBiofeedback (use of equipment to retrain the muscles around the anus and...
The studies either compared the effectiveness of different types of biofeedback to one another, or biofeedback to a sham biofeedback (a fake biofeedback treatment) or biofeedback to standard treatment...
View ArticleFeedback or biofeedback in addition pelvic floor muscle training for urinary...
There was some evidence that adding biofeedback was beneficial. However, it was not clear whether this was the effect of the biofeedback device itself....Objectives: To determine whether feedback or...
View ArticleBiofeedback for pain during labour
Biofeedback for pain during labour Biofeedback is a therapy that aims to train women to recognise some body signals such as heart rate, muscular tension or temperature and, in consequence, change their...
View ArticleEMG biofeedback for the recovery of motor function after stroke
EMG biofeedback for the recovery of motor function after stroke Electromyographic biofeedback (techniques using visual or sound signals to monitor muscle activity) has an uncertain impact on recovery...
View ArticleBiofeedback for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome
Biofeedback for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome Review Question We reviewed the evidence for the effect of biofeedback therapy on the management of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)....Four...
View ArticleBiofeedback for neck pain
Biofeedback for neck pain The main objective of this review is to assess the effect of biofeedback on neck pain....EMG biofeedback versus alternative treatment for individuals with short-duration neck...
View ArticleHow effective are military and frontline emergency service personnel...
There was a wide range of therapeutic modalities used, including cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) informed programmes, biofeedback based programmes, stress-management programmes, mindfulness and...
View ArticleConservative interventions for urinary incontinence in women: an overview of...
Stress urinary incontinence (14 reviews) Conservative intervention versus control: there was moderate or high certainty evidence that pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT), PFMT plus biofeedback and...
View ArticleConservative interventions for managing urinary incontinence after prostate...
PFMT plus biofeedback may result in more men reporting cure of incontinence from 6 to 12 months. However, men undertaking PFMT and biofeedback may be less likely to be cured according to clinicians'...
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