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MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.- East Carolina University students enrolled in the Biofeedback Program have begun their rounds at the Wounded Warrior Battalion East Hope and Care Center aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.
The Biofeedback program is a treatment technique where people learn to balance their nervous system using signals from their own bodies.
“Biofeedback is a non-invasive training used to modify physiological activity,” said Kathryn Rickabaugh, a psycho metrist with the Intrepid Spirit. “It promotes relaxation and stress reduction in the population we serve.”
The students treat service members aboard the installation to get hands-on experience in their potential job field.
“By working with Marines on base, students are able to transfer what they learn in the classroom and apply their skills to their actual work experience on base,” said Christina Brown-Bochicchio, a doctoral student at ECU and clinical coordinator for the center for Applied Psychophysiology at the university.
“This helps them better understand the men and women they work with and the environment in which they live.”
The objective of the program is to prepare the students for their future careers using real-life situations.
“I think the program is extremely successful,” said Brown-Bochicchio, a Dana Point, California native. “I have heard countless stories of individuals who have benefited from not only biofeedback training, but also from understanding the symptoms of stress and anxiety the patient may cope with and interventions to control these through various stress management techniques.”
Therapists who use biofeedback can use the treatment to alter brain activity, blood pressure, heart rate and other body functions often thought to be involuntary.
“Therapists can use treatment to help clients learn how to control tense and anxious feelings and emotions,” added Brown-Bochicchio.
“A monitoring device such as an ear clip or finger cuff is attached, and it records changes in heart rate variability and pulse rates as an individual participates in a recreational or other stress management activity.”
The students visit Camp Lejeune two days per week.
If interested in the biofeedback treatment, email brownbochicchio10@ students.ecu.edu.
| Date Taken: | 03.17.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 03.17.2015 09:27 |
| Story ID: | 157197 |
| Location: | MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, NC, US |
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