Asthma

It has been known for some years that biofeedback techniques can be helpful with both the severity and incidence of asthmatic episodes. We can now say that Neurofeedback techniques can be helpful as well, and this should be no surprise. So if a family is looking for help in this area, they might well seek out a biofeedback practitioner. However, if the family has reason to do Neurofeedback for any of a number of reasons, any asthma susceptibility may be helped as well.

We see this simply in terms of improving the stability of functioning of the autonomic nervous system. The brain is heavily involved in such regulation, so it stands to reason that Neurofeedback training might be helpful here. The surprising element, if any, is that the benefit is sometimes quite considerable, with inhalers going unused for months on end. The Neurofeedback will not have eliminated the asthma susceptibility in any sense, but it will have raised the threshold for the onset of symptoms.

Case Vignette:
From a neurofeedback practitioner in Germany:
One of my patients is a young woman 22 years of age with severe asthma symptoms. She needed medication (cortisol spray) three times a day so that she could breathe properly. After 4 (!) sessions she no longer needs the cortisol spray! Her symptoms decreased almost completely. We trained with Cygnet at 2.6 Hz. That is so amazing, because I never expected that we would be so fast and symptoms would be reduced to such a degree.