Thermal biofeedback and lower extremity blood flow in adults with diabetes: Is neuropathy a limiting factor?

Applied Psychophysiology Biofeedback

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 193-203

  Fiero, Patricia L ^a   Galper, Daniel I ^b   Cox, Daniel J ^b   Phillips II, Lawrence H ^b   Fryburg, David A ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Diabetes; Intermittent claudication; Neuropathy; Thermal biofeedback

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHY; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOOT; HAND; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LEG BLOOD FLOW; MALE; MOTOR NEUROPATHY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NEUROPATHY; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; TECHNIQUE; THERMAL BIOFEEDBACK; THERMOREGULATION; TOE; VAGUS NERVE; VASOMOTOR DISORDER; WARMING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BIOFEEDBACK (PSYCHOLOGY); DIABETIC NEUROPATHIES; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0042733409     PISSN: 10900586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024681113746     Document Type: Article

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