title: Response to the challenge: effective treatment of the elderly through thermal biofeedback combined with progression relaxation.
abstract: 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.
authors.forename: C F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Abrahamson
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001676:Biofeedback, Psychology; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D004576:Electromyography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000628:therapy*; D012064:Relaxation Therapy; D012881:Skin Temperature