Have you ever ever been in a membership and felt the vibrations of a bass guitar or drum that was so deep and low it vibrated your physique? Almost definitely, your chest and abdomen? That is an instance of VibroAcoustics—sound resonating our physique. You’ve additionally doubtless skilled this phenomenon when a truck goes rumbling by and you’re feeling the vibrations within the ground. Such sounds can typically be annoying and ugly, however they may also be very therapeutic when used with a special surroundings, understanding, and intention.
VibroAcoustics is the science of utilizing low frequency sounds ranging between 25 Hz to 120 Hz. The therapeutic use of those frequencies is utilizing LFS (low frequency sound) to create resonant vibrations within the human physique, thus making a therapeutic impact all the way down to a mobile stage. Using VibroAcoustics has been round us since historical instances when the low pulse of a giant drum or a deep bass instrument was used to create entraining vibrations in folks and affect coronary heart beats.
The person credited with Vibroacoustic Remedy (VAT) was a scientist from Norway named Olav Skille. I first met Olav again within the 1986 in Ludenscheid Germany, at one of many first Worldwide Society for Music in Drugs Conferences. He was doing a presentation on VAT and I used to be doing one on the therapeutic advantages of vocal harmonics. We each introduced once more at one other convention on the Eisenhower Medical Heart in Rancho Mirage, California the place I did a introduced on “Sonic Entrainment”—how binaural beat frequencies may have an effect on brainwaves. Each of those displays have been printed within the e book from “MUSICMEDICINE”.
Skille introduced data on utilizing low sound frequencies, together with 40 Hz, 44 Hz and 55 Hz to decrease blood stress, cut back ache, enhance mobility and cut back coronary heart fee. He referred to as this VibroAcoustic Remedy (VAT). These frequencies have been additionally used to help bronchial asthma and fibromyalgia. Primarily a deep tissue, low frequency inner sound therapeutic massage, VibroAcoustic remedy (VAT) makes use of audio waves within the vary of 25 Hz to 120 Hz and transmits sound to the physique.
Skille demonstrated the optimistic therapeutic results for an in depth vary of bodily and psychological well being points together with despair, bronchial asthma, and fibromyalgia. Using sound to supply vibrations that move straight by means of the physique, VibroAcoustic remedy (VAT) provides a non-invasive and drug free strategy to well being and wellness. Since sound vibrations journey 5 instances extra effectively by means of water than air and because the human physique is made up of over 70% water, VAT has been confirmed to offer a extremely environment friendly technique for the deepest mobile stage physique stimulation.
There have been many who’ve continued with VibroAcoustic Remedy—notably with the event of sound chairs and mattress. Dr. Lee Bartel has picked up lots of Olav Skille’s work and in his analysis which he presents on this TedX discuss, discusses the potential use of LFS (low frequency sound) for situations that may improve blood move and enhance bone density. He has discovered these LFS are therapeutic for ache, despair, insomnia, stress, and Alzheimer’s. Another situations which will profit are Parkinson’s and stroke in addition to for cardiac therapy. Most of those frequencies are utilized by means of chairs, beds and loungers that promote low frequency sounds.
Whereas Lee Bartel focuses on 40 Hz for the frequency that he makes use of and expresses this frequency as a metaphor (he calls the entrainment from this frequency, the “Cricket Precept”), I might recommend that 40 Hz is just one of many frequencies that Dr. Skille utilized in his analysis. There are numerous many extra frequencies that fall inside the bandwidth of 25 – 120 Hz that have an effect on us. Olav Skille was nonetheless trying to find the best one when final we spoke, however I do know he agreed that there have been many alternative frequencies that had optimistic therapeutic psycho-acoustic results. I’m certain you can find Dr. Bartel’s discuss to be fairly encouraging. We’re actually hopeful that extra analysis in low frequencies will happen.
