What each word actually means
Biofeedback measures a real physiological signal — heart rate, heart rate variability, skin conductance, muscle tension, breathing, brain electrical activity — and shows it back to you in real time so you can learn to influence it. The measurement is conventional instrumentation and the mechanism is learning.
Bioresonance is a family of approaches built on the premise that biological systems have characteristic electromagnetic signatures, and that deviations in those signatures carry information. NLS software belongs to this family. The premise is not established in the way the biofeedback measurement chain is.
The differences that matter
| Biofeedback | Bioresonance / NLS | |
|---|---|---|
| What is measured | A conventional physiological signal with an established measurement method. | A software comparison against reference patterns. |
| Is the measurement contested? | No. Heart rate variability is heart rate variability. | Yes. What is being measured, and whether it carries the claimed information, is contested. |
| Mechanism | Learning. You see a signal and learn to influence it. | Not established. |
| Evidence base | Clinical evidence exists for specific applications, notably some headache and continence work. | No blinded validation to a modern standard. |
| Real-time loop | Yes. The feedback loop is the intervention. | No. Output is produced and then reviewed. |
| Regulatory position | Some devices are regulated for specific clinical indications. | Not cleared as diagnostic devices. |
Why the conflation matters
When a provider describes a bioresonance service as "biofeedback", the effect is to import the clinical credibility of a measured, evidenced modality into one that does not have it. Sometimes that is carelessness with vocabulary. Sometimes it is not.
It matters practically, too. Someone who believes they are buying biofeedback for a condition with published biofeedback evidence, and who receives a bioresonance session instead, has bought something other than what they intended.
How to tell which one you are being offered
- Ask what signal is measured. A biofeedback provider will name one — heart rate variability, skin conductance, EMG, EEG. If the answer is vague or metaphysical, it is not biofeedback.
- Ask whether you see it live. Biofeedback shows you the signal while it happens, because that loop is the intervention.
- Ask what happens if you relax. In biofeedback, the number moves and you see it move. That is the entire point.
- Ask what evidence applies. A provider citing biofeedback studies for a bioresonance service is citing evidence that does not apply to what they are selling.
If biofeedback is what you actually want
Then look for a biofeedback practitioner rather than a bioresonance one, and ask about the specific application you have in mind. Some applications have real clinical evidence behind them and others do not, and the difference is worth researching before you pay.
It is a reasonable thing to want, and QMH is not the right provider for it. Saying so is more useful than selling you something adjacent.
Questions people ask before booking
No. NLS software compares readings against reference patterns and produces output for review. It does not present a measured physiological signal back to you in real time for you to learn to influence, which is what biofeedback is.
Partly loose vocabulary in the industry, and partly because the association with an evidenced modality is commercially useful. Neither is a good reason to accept the conflation.
Not to a comparable standard. The published bioresonance literature has small samples, unblinded operators and unregistered endpoints. The evidence page sets this out in detail.