BiofeedBack, Medical or Educational?

  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 f...