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autogenic training, a nursing intervention from the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) defined as assisting with self-suggestions about feelings of heaviness and warmth for the purpose of inducing relaxation. See also Nursing Interventions Classification. autogenic training, n an outgrowth of self-hypnosis, a method of achieving a self-induced state of trance by passive concentration and aware-ness of body sensations to induce relaxation. |
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In BFRT, biofeedback is usually augmented with relaxation techniques such as diaphragmatic breathing, progressive muscle relaxation training, autogenic training, guided imagery, and meditation. Tanigawa (14) proposed that improvements made by patients using passive stretching may be the result of both autogenic inhibition and tensile stress applied to the muscle. in Houston to obtain the license to commercialize Autogenic Feedback Training Exercise (AFTE), a technology originally developed for NASA by Patricia Cowings, an African American scientist at its Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley. |
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