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Robert R. Freedman, PhD
Wayne State University School of Medicine Detroit, Mich

JAMA. 1989;262(19):2681.

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To the Editor.—

I read with interest your recent article entitled "Behavioral Treatment of Raynaud's Syndrome"¹ and thought that recent work on the treatment of idiopathic Raynaud's disease with biofeedback and the mechanisms of this treatment would be relevant. A controlled study comparing finger temperature feedback, finger temperature feedback under mild cold stress, autogenic relaxation, and electromyogram biofeedback found that the first two methods produced reported symptom reductions of 67% and 92%, respectively, at 1-year follow-up, whereas the latter two treatments were ineffective.² These results were corroborated by ambulatory recordings of finger and ambient temperatures and by laboratory tests of the ability to increase finger temperature voluntarily without feedback. Three-year follow-up data showed that the symptomatic improvement in the two temperature feedback groups was retained.³

A series of subsequent studies⁴ replicated the above findings and demonstrated that elevations in finger temperature were accompanied by increased finger . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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