2006 Volume 32 Pages 27-32
Clinical application of biofeedback can be attained within the framework based on biopsychosocial model. Basic research of biofeedback has been studied in the controlled conditions. These studies are conducted by the scientific method based on biomedical model. However, health and illness are influenced by psychosocial factors. In reality, all therapy, whether conventional or alternative, is holistic in the sense that whole person always responds. Biofeedback as behavioral medicine is a multimodal approach in which the treatment protocol is tailored to the individual needs of patient, self-responsibility is encouraged, and a successful outcome depends on the patient's use of self-regulation skills and strategies. In recent years, biofeedback was categorized one of the mind-body therapies as complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Historically, it was difficult to accept biofeedback as conventional medicine. However, biofeedback as CAM will be accepted for a different domain into the community of conventional medicine. In Japan, we don't have any educational system and adequate biofeedback instrument for clinical psychophysiology. It is important how the new medical system which can use biofeedback effectively can be proposed and put into practice.
