NIH R01 · 2024
Promoting Effective Self-Management of Chronic Pain with mHealth Neurofeedback
ABSTRACT One in five Americans has chronic pain. Many pharmacological pain interventions exist but increase risk of opioid abuse. There is a critical need to find safe, accessible, and effective treatments for patients to self-manage pain. Neurofeedback, or electroencephalogram (EEG) biofeedback, treats pain by training patients to regulate brain states linked to physiological relaxation. Although neurofeedback has traditionally required travel to clinics, in the past decade, portable EEG headsets have been validated that read brainwaves and send signals via Bluetooth to mobile devices. We developed a mobile health (mHealth) platform enabling patients with chronic pain to conduct…
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