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What about Biofeedback?
Biofeedback is a natural form of treatment that can help relieve chronic pain, anxiety, and even ADHD. Patients learn how to relax their own muscles, decrease GSR, or change their brain waves in order to decrease anxiety and chronic pain. Children with attention deficit disorder (ADD) can learn to pay attention.

Most biofeedback for ADD and ADHD consists of neurofeedback, or EEG biofeedback.  Through the feedback children learn to increase faster beta brainwaves and decrease slower alpha and theta brainwaves.  In doing this they are training their brains to pay attention.  Neurofeedback is becoming more popular because it does not expose children to potentially addictive mood-altering medications.

More informatoin on biofeedback can be found at sites such as BiofeedbackSpecialist.com.  
 
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