The treatment of EMG biofeedback for 61 neurotic outpatients / 中国心理卫生杂志

ABSTRACT

Two groups of neurotic outpatients were compared in their outcome afterfrontal EMG biofeedback treatment with Jacobson progressive relaxation at home.The firstneurotic group consisted of 42 patients and treated once every two days for four weeks whilethe second group consisted of 19 cases and treated every day but for only two weeks.Similarily satisfactory clinical effects and same trends of change in various physiological indexof EMG and clinical symptons were observed,between these two groups.No relationship wasfound between patient's personality characteristc and clinical effects.In a four follow up,2/3patients reported a continuous satisfactory outcome.