Psychological interventions for chronic pain: a critical review. II Operant conditioning, hypnosis, and cognitive-behavioral therapy
PainPublished 1 January 1982
Judith A. Turner, Richard C. Chapman
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It is concluded that there is no evidence that biofeedback is superior to relaxation training with these headache populations, and studies to date evaluating the effectiveness of relaxation training and alpha, electromyographic, finger temperature, and other types ofBiofeedback led to this conclusion.
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*University of Washington Pain Center, Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, School of Medicine, Seattle, Wash. 98195 U.S.A. **University of Washington Pain Center, Departments of Anesthesiology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash. 98195 U.S.A. *Please address all correspondence to the first author. Submitted May 26, 1981; accepted May 28, 1981.
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