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This is a single case report of a 56-year-old Caucasian female referred for biofeedback by her dermatologist after seven years of failed standard medical treatment for psoriasis. Patient's presenting complaint was the embarrassing psoriasis lesions on her arms. Following 13 weekly one-hour finger/hand thermal biofeedback treatments, all 11 presenting psoriasis lesions (2–6 cm) had disappeared. Interestingly, any new psoriasis lesions that surfaced during our treatment disappeared without leaving palpable or visible scarring, unlike lesions that were present prior to biofeedback treatment. Patient was unmedicated for psoriasis during our treatment and continues to be unmedicated and asymptomatic at 12-month follow-up.
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This study was done while the author was affiliated with the Homewood Hospital/The Johns Hopkins Health Care System, Baltimore, Maryland.
The author expresses gratitude to Dr. Russell Hibler for his invaluable biofeedback supervision on this case, and to Terri Harold for manuscript preparation and editing.
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Goodman, M. An hypothesis explaining the successful treatment of psoriasis with thermal biofeedback: A case report. Biofeedback and Self-Regulation 19, 347–352 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01776734
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