biofeedback (BF)

Procedure

• behavioral technique by which information about a normally unconscious physiologic process is presented to the patient & the clinician as a visual, auditory, or tactile signal
• the signal is derived from a measurable physiologic parameter which is subsequently used in an educational process to accomplish a specific therapeutic result
• the signal is displayed in a quantitative way, & the patient is taught how to alter it & thus control the physiologic process

More general terms

• behavioral technique/intervention

More specific terms

• biofeedback for incontinence