Rehabilitation of an electrical burn patient through thermal biofeedback.

A 22-year-old male subject, with high-voltage electrical burns to one wrist, utilized differential relaxation and visual biofeedback to increase skin temperature in the damaged hand. Through 14 thermal biofeedback and passive relaxation sessions, the subject was able to produce temperature increases in his damaged hand of up to 21 degrees F, which considerably diminished the pain. Healing, feeling, and movement control seemed to progress with extreme rapidity, suggesting that axoplasmic transport was greatly enhanced.