Darlene Porteous
jporte3943@aol.com

To encourage athletes to maximize their potential in competition, they need to be trained both in performance of their physical skills and in their mental attitude. The EDR feedback strategies presented in this protocol are powerful teaching tools to any performer, to facilitate the mental training components, which so often affect a performance outcome. With the use of the small portable EDR feedback devices, a coach who wants to enhance the mental training of athletes can also implement the above-cited strategies. Once these skills are learned, they increase the possibility of achieving one's personal best by generating the sense of INNER CONFIDENCE through the experience that "I HAVE CONTROL."

The following protocol is for Dysphagia, but the principle of amplifying a muscle so that you can 'see' it is the principle,see
http://www.bfe.org/protocol/pro06eng.htm

EMG biofeedback holds great potential as an adjunct to standard therapy for the rehabilitation of the dysphagic patient when under the direction of a speech language pathologist with expertise in this area. Biofeedback provides several critical elements that are unavailable with standard dysphagia therapy. Video monitoring allows the patient to view the swallow as it occurs, converting a previously automatic skill of which there is generally little awareness to a visually represented task that can be consciously monitored and altered. Target behavior and goal identification is measurable, providing the patient with invaluable insight into progress and motivation for continued treatment. And finally, quantitative data are produced to document the patients progress, facilitating reimbursement from third party payers. Swallowing therapy techniques are used to effect a change in the physiology of the oral and pharyngeal swallow. Biofeedback, if used appropriately, is a valuable patient aid in visualizing and documenting these changes.

http://yahoogroups.com/group/biofeedback/

it was interesting to read about getting peak performance from
athletes with biofeedback. Would this also work to get movement back into the limbs of stroke survivors?

Darlene Porteous
jporte3943@aol.com