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Article: Biofeedback. (Wonder Cures from the Fringe)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- September 23, 1991
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Fifteen years ago, psychologist Michael McKee of the Cleveland Clinic was discussing with a colleague a slew of medical reports showing that a technique called biofeedback could enable people to mental control seemingly involuntary conditions like heart rate and chronic pain. The scientists decided to see if biofeedback really worked. McKee's colleague borrowed a device that measures muscle contraction, jabbed the needle into McKee's forehead and said "OK, relax." At this point McKee decided that biofeedback didn't have much of a future.
But he and others continued their biofeedback research, devising gentler measurements. Meanwhile, biofeedback rode the same ...