30 years of biofeedback: History and applications

The thirty anniversary of the biofeedback techniques is completed, with that reason it is presented in a summarized way a brief one traveled by its history, the beginnings and the pioneer applications. The most representative models are exposed that seek to give explanation to the causes of the reason it works the biofeedback and the different implied systems. Likewise, other models are commented you tune that although not specific of the biofeedback, they try to explain some facts and characteristic of the same one. The application fields are presented for which the practice of this technique is extremely consolidated, in some cases being the only therapy that has demonstrated its effectiveness, and in other cases it is used jointly with other very they are pharmacological or behavior therapies. Future application lines are also picked up that at the moment are in investigation process and development, equally other areas are commented in those that this technique has space, so much from the point of view of the training for rehabilitation of dysfunctions like from the education for the prevention of pathologies and development of necessary abilities for the execution of certain techniques.