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Response to the challenge: Effective treatment of the elderly through thermal biofeedback combined with progression relaxation

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This notes pursues the theme introduced in the first “Notes and Observations” publication: the effectiveness of biofeedback in treatment of the elderly. Current clinical results in progress are reported for a 76-year-old female hypertensive whose blood pressure has to date been lowered from 190/90 to 160/82 by means of thermal biofeedback in conjunction with progressive relaxation. These results are contrasted with reported failures in the headache study of elderly patients (Blanchard, Andrasik, Evans, & Hillhouse 1985). Results of this study are reinterpreted in terms of biofeedback modality rather than age of subjects.

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    Candida Finkel Abrahamson

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Abrahamson, C.F. Response to the challenge: Effective treatment of the elderly through thermal biofeedback combined with progression relaxation. Biofeedback and Self-Regulation 12, 121–125 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01000013

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