Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London
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J R Coll Physicians Lond · Nov 1998
Clinical TrialComputerised biofeedback games: a new method for teaching stress management and its use in irritable bowel syndrome.
To develop and test a computer biofeedback game designed to teach deep relaxation to patients with a stress related disorder and to assess whether relaxation can improve symptomatic episodes. ⋯ This computer biofeedback game taught deep relaxation rapidly and effectively. Half the patients with refractory irritable bowel syndrome found the technique helpful on most occasions on which it was used. Computer biofeedback games may offer a simple, inexpensive strategy for managing other stress related medical disorders.