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an important consumer warning here, about how to distinguish
real vs fake biofeedback:
What is Fake Biofeedback?
If you follow the news, you may know there are unfortunately a range of unethical and/or fraudulent service providers in Canada. When it comes to biofeedback, sadly, it is no different.
Real biofeedback is a learning process, in which you become empowered to better regulate your body's functioning. For example, someone with headaches might have muscle biofeedback monitors placed on the upper back and neck. Using this muscle feedback, she or he could learn how to keep the target muscles from tightening up while under stress or task challenges.
When you look at fake biofeedback, it is easy to see the difference:
"It works by scanning you much like a virus-scan ... [for] viruses, nutritional imbalances, allergies, abnormalities, hormone levels, toxins, enzymes and food sensitivities by measuring the body’s many energetic parameters such as pH, Electron Pressure, Impedance, Reactance, hydration, oxygenation etc...[can] find and address most if not all the psychological, emotional and physical stressors that are interfering and blocking your health. It can be used with just about any health condition".
(from the current website of a Registered Naturopath)
This is fake biofeedback.
You can tell when it is framed as a treatment, not a learning process.
Remember, if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is!
I always hoped that all those amazing things from Star Trek would eventually come true,
and some of them have! Wouldn't it be nice if some device could diagnose and treat "just about any health condition"? But if there really was a medical gizmo that could scan you for all those problems, wouldn't every doctor's office have it?
Secondly, it still wouldn't be biofeedback because there is no learning to self-regulate.
One last concern about fake biofeedback: the machine supposedly sends electrical frequencies back into your body to "rebalance" you. If true, there is really no way to know what the effect of this electrical stimulation may be.
A bona fide biofeedback therapist will tell you that the biofeedback machines do not "put anything into you", they only measure a specific biological process.
I hope this post leaves you in a better position to advocate for yourself and make informed choices. For more information, go to reputable sources such as WebMD, the Mayo clinic, or even Wikipedia.
For those who do not have facebook accounts, I reproduce
an important consumer warning here, about how to distinguish
real vs fake biofeedback:
What is Fake Biofeedback?
If you follow the news, you may know there are unfortunately a range of unethical and/or fraudulent service providers in Canada. When it comes to biofeedback, sadly, it is no different.
Real biofeedback is a learning process, in which you become empowered to better regulate your body's functioning. For example, someone with headaches might have muscle biofeedback monitors placed on the upper back and neck. Using this muscle feedback, she or he could learn how to keep the target muscles from tightening up while under stress or task challenges.
When you look at fake biofeedback, it is easy to see the difference:
"It works by scanning you much like a virus-scan ... [for] viruses, nutritional imbalances, allergies, abnormalities, hormone levels, toxins, enzymes and food sensitivities by measuring the body’s many energetic parameters such as pH, Electron Pressure, Impedance, Reactance, hydration, oxygenation etc...[can] find and address most if not all the psychological, emotional and physical stressors that are interfering and blocking your health. It can be used with just about any health condition".
(from the current website of a Registered Naturopath)
This is fake biofeedback.
You can tell when it is framed as a treatment, not a learning process.
Remember, if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is!
I always hoped that all those amazing things from Star Trek would eventually come true,
and some of them have! Wouldn't it be nice if some device could diagnose and treat "just about any health condition"? But if there really was a medical gizmo that could scan you for all those problems, wouldn't every doctor's office have it?
Secondly, it still wouldn't be biofeedback because there is no learning to self-regulate.
One last concern about fake biofeedback: the machine supposedly sends electrical frequencies back into your body to "rebalance" you. If true, there is really no way to know what the effect of this electrical stimulation may be.
A bona fide biofeedback therapist will tell you that the biofeedback machines do not "put anything into you", they only measure a specific biological process.
I hope this post leaves you in a better position to advocate for yourself and make informed choices. For more information, go to reputable sources such as WebMD, the Mayo clinic, or even Wikipedia.
