Biofeedback Volume 42: Issue 3

The photo on the cover of this special issue shows multidisciplinary treatment at the Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital for Rehabilitation. A physical therapist is guiding a patient through a stretching maneuver, while the biofeedback practitioner monitors and supports the patient's self-regulation using HRV biofeedback. (Our thanks to the Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital for Rehabilitation for the photograph.)

Biofeedback providers necessarily make contact with patients or clients using sterile and nonsterile instruments and sensors. Many biofeedback providers lack the aseptic technique training that is common to licensed medical providers. This review familiarizes biofeedback providers with the essential principles and procedures of infection risk mitigation by touching on routes of disease transmission, disinfection, sanitization, and Spaulding classification. Basic suggestions for infection risk mitigation standards of practice are offered.

Biofeedback is an effective tool for treating pediatric pain. As biofeedback professionals, we often work within an interdisciplinary team for complicated cases of pain. This interprofessional care of pediatric chronic pain presents both advantages and potential hurdles to the biofeedback clinician. In this article, we detail two current biofeedback services affiliated with interprofessional pediatric pain management. We then use case examples to demonstrate key issues in interprofessional care. We conclude with opportunities for further development of interprofessional care involving biofeedback and lessons learned from our practice that may be beneficial to others in the field.

This book describes how to apply mindfulness principles to the practice of biofeedback. As a general system for improving mental awareness and self-control, mindfulness can probably help one do anything better, including playing video games or starting a business. Biofeedback, however, is especially well-suited to this assistance, because it depends on learning to influence normally automatic or semi-automatic biological processes, which are themselves reactive to one's moment-to-moment feelings about success and failure. Introducing elements of mindfulness, as the author explains in detail, makes the process smoother by teaching the client/trainee to avoid effortful striving for control, which generally is contrary

Fall 2014 Special Issue: The Integration of Biofeedback and Neurofeedback into Comprehensive Treatment Programs

Infection Risk Mitigation for Biofeedback Providers

Applied Biofeedback in Pediatric Pain

A Team Treatment Approach After Major Brain Surgery: Rehabilitation Post–Functional Hemispherectomy

Integration of Biofeedback into Pediatric Multidisciplinary Programs at Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City

Biofeedback and Integrative Medicine in the Pain Clinic Setting

On Integrating an Integrative: Implications for Implementing a Biofeedback Program into an Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospital

Interventions for Grandmothers: Comparative Effectiveness of Resourcefulness Training, HRV Biofeedback, and Journaling

The Clinical Handbook of Biofeedback: A Step-by-Step Guide for Training and Practice with Mindfulness.

REPORT: Report from FABBS Meeting

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT: Establishing a University-Based Biofeedback Clinic for Practice, Education, and Research

SPECIAL ISSUE: The Impact of a Romantic Partner on Patient Experience of Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback

SPECIAL ISSUE: Pain—There Is Hope

ABSTRACTS: Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 54th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback