Heart Coherence Training Combined with Back School in Patients with Chronic Non-specific Low Back Pain: First Pragmatic Clinical Results

Applied Psychophysiology Biofeedback

Volumn 39, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 259-267

  Soer, Remko ^a,b   Vos, Dafne ^a   Hofstra, Bert ^a   Reneman, Michiel F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b SAXION UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Back school; Emotion regulation; Heart rate variability; Low back pain; Stress reduction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHRONIC PAIN; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RELAXATION TRAINING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BIOFEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGY; CHRONIC PAIN; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RELAXATION THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84911977202     PISSN: 10900586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10484-014-9260-y     Document Type: Article

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