Open Trial of Biofeedback for Respiratory Symptoms

Description

Biofeedback is a therapeutic paradigm that teaches patients how to gain awareness and control over previously unrecognized sympathetic changes such as body temperature, blood pressure, and heart rate. We propose to use a six session biofeedback protocol that includes heart-rate variability (HRV) biofeedback, respiration/relaxation training, and body temperature control to treat patients with unaddressed respiratory symptoms (e.g. shortness of breath) who are under the care of pulmonologists and have not responded to traditional biomedical approaches (e.g. inhalers, pulmonary rehab, etc.).

Conditions

Shortness of Breath/Dyspnea

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

Biofeedback is a therapeutic paradigm that teaches patients how to gain awareness and control over previously unrecognized sympathetic changes such as body temperature, blood pressure, and heart rate. We propose to use a six session biofeedback protocol that includes heart-rate variability (HRV) biofeedback, respiration/relaxation training, and body temperature control to treat patients with unaddressed respiratory symptoms (e.g. shortness of breath) who are under the care of pulmonologists and have not responded to traditional biomedical approaches (e.g. inhalers, pulmonary rehab, etc.).

Open Trial of Biofeedback for Respiratory Symptoms

Open Trial of Biofeedback for Respiratory Symptoms

Condition
Shortness of Breath/Dyspnea
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Los Angeles

Natacha Emerson, Los Angeles, California, United States, 90095

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

  • 1. participants must be between 18-60
  • 2. English speaking
  • 3. must have least one respiratory sx and have received care from a pulmonologist for this sx

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to 60 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

University of California, Los Angeles,

Study Record Dates

2026-07-31