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This video demonstrates the memory stimulation aspect of using music as a form of mediation.
Adding Vibro-Sensory Stimulation reinforces this stimulus by exciting both the right and left hemispheres of the brain with the same music in sync.
To convey the importance of this, I would like to relate to you an experience I had with Alzheimer’s patients, while working in a nursing home as the maintenance director. An enlightening job I took to support my family and invention habits.
Working together with the recreation department at the nursing home, I arranged a demonstration of one of my tactile sound chairs to be utilized with the patients.
The tactile sound chair was placed into service on a Friday afternoon in the recreation room. This allowed the recreation staff to use the chair over the weekend with the basic instruction of using only music that the patents were familiar with well before the onset of any disease.
We agreed that the first candidate would be a women, “Kay”, (not her real name) who was in the latent stages of Alzheimer’s who was combative, unable to feed herself or take herself to the bathroom. She would “hang out” in her wheelchair by the employees entrance and try to escape whenever anyone entered or exited.
Analyzing Kay’s case, we decided to use big band music from Tommy Dorsey and other similar genres of music. The theory, in brief, being that simultaneous stimulation of the right and left hemispheres of the brain with auditory and tactile information coupled with music from the past, would re-create synaptic communication between the hemispheres and other brain segments.
I then went home for the weekend.
On Monday morning when I returned to work I noticed that Kay was not in her normal place by the employee entrance. As I walked down the hall towards the recreation room to see how things had gone over the weekend I saw Kay walking towards me. I was surprised to see her out of her wheelchair and said “how are you Kay” and she responded “very fine thank you”. I was very excited at this point and almost ran to the recreation department. When I got there I asked the recreation department head as to whether she had seen Kay. She responded “have we seen Kay..she has started feeding herself, taken herself to the bathroom, went to a knitting class and attended church”.
I inquired as to how this transformation had occurred and her response was “we put her in the chair with the music program for three , 1 hour sessions. On the first session there was some resistance but after that she actually asked to sit in the chair”. I asked if they had changed any of her medications or therapies and they responded “no” explaining that it was the weekend so nothing was changed in her treatment routine except her time in the chair.
This change in behavior was recorded by the recreation department head, the nurse practitioner and later by Kay’s doctor. Subsequently a few other patients were introduced to the chair with very similar results. Kay’s condition continued to improve even though no other sessions were provided.
That same week, a VP from the corporate office came in and gave a talk on “Paradigm Shifts in the Nursing Home Industry”. I approached him and told him the story about Kay and the other patients and he was quite interested. His first action was to suspend the use of the chair in the facility stating that further research was required before they could authorize the use of this technology.
Unfortunately, it was determined that the insurance polices held by the corporation would not support any research activities in any facility owned by the corporation.
Due to my passion for this technology, I began to research the use of using vibratory stimulation as a therapy to mediate human maladies. In my research I have discovered that over the last 30 years a number of researchers have found that certain frequencies presented in a tactile or vibratory mode have very profound effects on various mental and physical disabilities. I have listed many clinical trails related to these studies on my web site at http://hifiwellness.com
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https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-08-body-vibration-microbiome-inflammation-diabetes.html
In the face of diabetes, a common condition in which glucose and levels of destructive inflammation soar, whole body vibration appears to improve how well our body uses glucose as an energy source and adjust our microbiome and immune cells to deter inflammation, investigators report.
For the first time they have described how regular use of whole body vibration can create this healthier mix by yielding a greater percentage of macrophages—cells that can both promote or prevent inflammation—that suppress rather than promote.
In their mouse model, investigators at the Medical College of Georgia and Dental College of Georgia at Augusta University have also shown that whole body vibration alters the microbiome, a collection of microorganisms in and on our body, which help protect us from invaders and, in the gut, help us digest food.
Changes they saw included increasing levels of a bacterium that makes short chain fatty acids, which can help the body better utilize glucose, they report in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences. Glucose is used by the body for fuel but at high levels promotes inflammation, insulin insensitivity and ultimately can cause diabetes.
While there were other changes, the most dramatic they documented was the 17-fold increase in this bacterium called Alistipes, a gut bacterium not typically in high supply there but known to be proficient at making short chain fatty acids which, in turn, are “very good” at decreasing inflammation in the gut, says Dr. Jack Yu, chief of pediatric plastic surgery at MCG. Alistipes, which helps ferment our food without producing alcohol, generally improves the metabolic status of our gut and makes us more proficient at using the glucose we consume for energy.
When they saw this, co-corresponding authors Yu and Dr. Babak Baban, immunologist and interim associate dean for research at DCG, immediately thought that giving a dose of the bacterium, like you would a medication, with a smaller dose of whole body vibration—in this case 10 minutes versus 20 minutes five times weekly—might work just as well, and it did, they report.
It what appears to be this good chain reaction, when Alistipes went up, glucose use and the macrophage mix also improved, Baban says. “The sequencing is not yet completely clear,” Yu says, “But it appears to be a closed loop, feed forward, self-magnifying cycle.”
Our microbiome, like a casserole, is in layers and one way whole body vibration may work is by rearranging those layers, Baban says, but they reiterate that no one is certain just how whole body vibration works in this or other scenarios, like as an exercise mimic without all the proactive movement.
But it appears to help address a key concern in diabetes and many common diseases: inflammation. While acute inflammation helps us fight disease, chronic inflammation helps start and sustain a variety of diseases from cardiovascular problems to cancer as well as diabetes.
With rates of inflammation-producing obesity and related type 2 diabetes increasing—even in children—new therapies that can directly help avoid the health consequences are needed, they write. They add that while more work is needed, whole body vibration might be one widely applicable and generally safe approach to use.
Macrophages, which promote inflammation, called M1, and suppress inflammation, called M2, play an important role in regulation of the inflammatory response. The inflammatory status of macrophages also influences the gut microbiome and vice versa.
In Baban and Yu’s mouse model of type 2 diabetes, where circulating glucose levels are high, they wanted to know how whole-body vibration affected the inflammatory status of macrophages and the diversity of the microbiome. They theorized their diabetes model would have more M1s, and that whole body vibration would result in more M2s and yield changes in the microbiome as well.
They found both a significant increase in the number of M2s as well as increases in levels of other anti-inflammatory molecules like the cytokine IL-10, in both normal mice and their diabetes mouse model after vibration. In fact, whole body vibration restored M2 levels to that of normal controls.
In the microbiome, they saw numerous shifts but by far the most significant was the increase in Alistipes and a general decrease in the diversity of the microbiome.
They note that while more diversity is generally considered a good thing, in this case the shift likely resulted from an increase in species like Alistipes, which can produce short chain fatty acids like butyrate, which result from the fermentation of dietary fiber in our gut and which feed inhabitants of the microbiome, are highly anti-inflammatory and can help reverse ill effects of high-fat diets, they write.
Theirs is the first study to document crosstalk between the microbiome and innate immunity by altering the macrophage mix with whole body vibration. Innate immunity is a sort of basic defense that immediately responds to invaders in the body and includes physical barriers like the skin as well as immune cells like macrophages, which are key to this response. In this scenario, macrophages, for example, release other cells called cytokines that help trigger inflammation. Adaptive immunity is when the body makes a specific cell, like an antibody, to target a specific invader.
They note that it’s still impossible to know whether the microbiome or macrophage shift comes first but theorize that making more glucose available to macrophages fosters inflammation and insulin resistance.
Another experiment they want to do to better define the order, is to delete the macrophages and see if they still see the other effects, Baban says.
But either way, the investigators say the clear interaction provides more evidence that whole body vibration can turn down inflammation.
The microbiome lives in the mouth, gut, vagina and skin—mostly in the gut— at points where our body comes in contact with foreign items to help protect us from invaders. In the gut it helps us digest and use our food.
Scientists have found more than 8 million genes represented in the bacteria, fungi and viruses that comprise a healthy human microbiome while the human himself has more like 20,000 to 25,000 genes. Obesity has been associated with a less-diverse microbiome, which is actually more efficient at digesting food.
In diabetes, whole body vibration is known to reduce ill effects like excessive urine production and excessive thirst, Yu reported in 2012 to the Third World Congress of Plastic Surgeons of Chinese Descent. That work was in a mouse model, which mimicked overeating adolescents. Vibration also reduced inflammation levels, including shifts in some immune cell levels. Vibration also was better than drugs at reducing A1C levels, which provide a better idea of your average blood sugar levels than a fasting glucose by showing what percentage of your oxygen-carrying hemoglobin is routinely coated with sugar. High glucose, or blood sugar levels, may result in sugar binding to cells and other places inside the body where it can alter function.
“Hyperglycemia is not good,” says Yu. “When it happens you perturb the normal.”
While Alistipes, which does not survive well outside the body, is not currently a part of probiotics or even yogurt cultures, for these studies the investigators used levels of other bacterium, like lactobacillus, found in yogurt to determine how much to give when they tried the Alistipes as a medicine adjunct to whole body vibration.
Alistipes is found in plants, and levels have been shown to be decreased in individuals with inflammatory bowel disease and Crohn’s. Higher levels have been associated with depression, and high levels can be found in the gut of hibernating bears.
A 2017 study published in Endocrinology by Drs. Alexis Stranahan and Meghan E. McGee-Lawrence at MCG, provided evidence that in their animal model of obesity and diabetes, whole body vibration was essentially the same as walking on a treadmill at reducing body fat and improving muscle and bone tone, including reducing seriously unhealthy fat around the liver, where it produces damage similar to excessive drinking.
More information: Jack C. Yu et al. Whole Body Vibration-Induced Omental Macrophage Polarization and Fecal Microbiome Modification in a Murine Model, International Journal of Molecular Sciences (2019). DOI: 10.3390/ijms20133125Journal information:Endocrinology
http://www.news.utoronto.ca/good-vibrations-using-sound-treat-disease
Good vibrations: using sound to treat disease
Professor Lee Bartel explores the medical effects of low frequency sound (stock.xchng photo)
Many of us love massages, but imagine a massage so deep that tissues, organs and cells could also be ‘massaged’.
That’s exactly what Vibroacoustic Therapy, a low frequency sound massage, is clinically proven to do, and new research at U of T suggests that it may help people with debilitating diseases.
“It is basically stimulating the body with very low sound – like sitting on a subwoofer,” said Professor Lee Bartel of the Faculty of Music. “But it requires special speakers that carry sound almost too low to hear in a way that changes it basically to something you feel instead of hear.”
Bartel and his team in the new Music and Health Research Collaboratory (MaHRC) are exploring the medical effects of low frequency sound and have shown that this therapy can play a key role in reducing the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.
Vibroacoustic therapy (VAT) consists of low sound frequencies that are transmitted to the body and mind through special transducers that convert the sound to inner body massage. MaHRC associates Heidi Ahonen and Quincy Almeida treated two groups of Parkinson’s patients (20 with dominant tremor symptoms and 20 with slow/rigid movement symptoms) with five minutes of 30 Hz vibration.
Both groups showed improvements in all symptoms, including less rigidity and better walking speed with bigger steps and less tremor.
“There have been several studies using vibration from sound with Parkinson’s,” said Bartel “It has been known for over 100 years that vibration (like riding in a wagon on cobblestones) helped relieve some symptoms. So the scientific study of the effect of low frequency sound was a natural connection. Also known is that 40 Hz brain waves seem to be carriers of information between the parts of the brain that control movement. So adding extra stimulation in that zone should help that communication and so assist in movement control.”
Bartel, Founding and Acting Director of MaHRC, says the goal of low frequency sound studies with Parkinson’s is to determine which approach is most effective, how much and how often treatment is needed, and whether medication can be reduced. Vibroacoustic Therapy frequencies, between 20 and 100 Hz or pulses per second, correspond to brainwave activities and function that are currently being explored in neuroscience.
But the effects of Vibroacoustic Therapy extend beyond the brain. It also provides deep physical cellular stimulation to skin, muscles and joints, resulting in decreased pain and increased mobility. Like hand/mechanical massage, vibroacoustic therapy aids circulation, relaxes muscles, and feels good.
Bartel points to research that shows that “several medical conditions including Parkinson’s and neuralgic pain like fibromyalgia, may be related to a common brain mechanism – a brain rhythm disorientation between the inner brain and the outer cortex. Since the rhythmic pulses of music can drive and stabilize these, we speculate that low frequency sound might help in fibromyalgia as well as Parkinson’s.”
Bartel’s team is now looking at the role of vibroacoustic therapy as a treatment for patients with fibromyalgia.
“Although it is too early to form any conclusions, there is encouraging data indicating that treating fibromyalgia patients with doses of 40 Hz sound seems to reduce pain.”
“It is truly an exciting time for music medicine – the idea of developing audioceuticals (prescribable sound) points to a whole new direction for music therapy, and the potential for MaHRC to lead in this is very exciting for me” said Bartel.
New hope for diabetics with chronic wounds and pain.
http://app.mdtmag.com/news/2014/04/vibration-may-help-heal-chronic-wounds?et_cid=3857550
“The exciting thing about this intervention is how easily it could be translated to people,” Koh said. “It’s a procedure that’s non-invasive, doesn’t require any drugs, and is already being tested in human trials to see if it’s protective of bone loss.” A clinical study, in collaboration with Dr. William Ennis, director of the Wound Healing Clinic at UIC, is planned, Koh said.
The frequencies used in this study can be produced on the HiFi wellness portable massage table…available now.
“The exciting thing about this intervention is how easily it could be translated to people,” Koh said. “It’s a procedure that’s non-invasive, doesn’t require any drugs, and is already being tested in human trials to see if it’s protective of bone loss.” A clinical study, in collaboration with Dr. William Ennis, director of the Wound Healing Clinic at UIC, is planned, Koh said.
Other recent studies have show promise for Parkinson’s and Fibromyalgia
http://www.news.utoronto.ca/good-vibrations-using-sound-treat-disease
Many of us love massages, but imagine a massage so deep that tissues, organs and cells could also be ‘massaged’.
That’s exactly what Vibroacoustic Therapy, a low frequency sound massage, is clinically proven to do, and new research at U of T suggests that it may help people with debilitating diseases
“There have been several studies using vibration from sound with Parkinson’s,” said Bartel “It has been known for over 100 years that vibration (like riding in a wagon on cobblestones) helped relieve some symptoms. So the scientific study of the effect of low frequency sound was a natural connection. Also known is that 40 Hz brain waves seem to be carriers of information between the parts of the brain that control movement. So adding extra stimulation in that zone should help that communication and so assist in movement control.”
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Any one have much success facilitating change for clients with peripheral neuropathy (PN) in the feet? If so, what did the client find most helpful?
Tom Fenner Responded
Greetings Sunny, I have used whole body Vibro Sensory Stimulation (VSS) at 68 Hz with a low frequency differential to completely relieve peripheral neuropathy, for over a year now, in an individual who had suffered foot pain and tingling for 5 years after arthroscopic knee surgery. Clinical studies have shown that certain frequencies stimulate the natural endogenous opiate zones of the brain and also provide vasodilatation. This frequency combination has also been very effective for fibromyalgia and chronic sciatica. One individual was scheduled for surgery for his chronic sciatica. After 2 treatments of VSS he cancelled his surgery. That was over a year ago and the sciatica has not returned. (I just talked with this client and he has noticed small inklings of his symptoms… so time for another session on the table) What makes this treatment different is that it uses high fidelity sine waves as opposed to oscillatory waves produced by eccentric weighted rotary vibrators found in most vibration devices.
In reviewing many of the responses, I see reference to using vibration for relieving symptoms of PN. These devices vary from a strong foot vibrator to TENS units . The vibrators typically use a rotating eccentric weight or moving mass to produce vibration, these are very common in Lazy Boy recliners . The TENS units and the shock treatment use electrostimulation of the muscle fascia to create digital vibration.
In most cases these devices provide oscillatory excitation or in the case of TENS, digital or on off vibration. In clinical research, true sine waves have been more effective in relieving symptoms of many common malodies and provide the means for accurately controlling both the frequency and amplitude of the vibrations. Further studies have shown that whole body stimulation is more effective than localized treatment.
@Robert, Regarding other technologies such as Binaural beats in combination with Royal Rife frequencies; I used the Equisync EOC Institute Enlightenment MP3 program that utilizes binaural beats one time on the VSST (vibro Sensory Stimulation Table) with pro headphones. Didn’t make it through the whole 23 minute program and did not sleep for the next 48 hrs, no fatigue, I have not repeated again…scared me a little. Needs further exploration.
Rife frequencies are a combination of modified square waves usually in a specific frequency set of mostly inaudible frequencies. Some of these sets have elements that are audible frequencies. Rife frequencies are best used in whole body, EMF generating plasma tubes but have been tried in hand held and foot electrodes. I found it very difficult to tolerate the sound of these programs and I’m fairly certain there are no benefits to listening to them with headphones. I have compiled a number of these sets in Audacity to render through the VSST and found them to be a bit agitating, even those labeled “serenity” or “stress relief”.
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Rifes main objective in life was to destroy very specific cellular structures namely cancerous ones. He used a microscope of his own design and construction for observing the results in real time to identify resonant disruptive frequencies for numerous pathogens. His microscope is unrivaled today as its prismatic color separation of layers in the live specimen allowed him to observe behavior of the organism under multiple frequency excitation. The electron microscope in comparison promptly kills all living media when it is turned on.
What is a key point here is that while square waves are effective at killing organisms, sine waves have a restorative effect which brings us to the Infratonic device. I have a QGM Infratonic device here, in for a second repair. This device has been proven highly effective in the equine community and has a number of Kentucky Derby winners as users.
The owner of this device administers colon cleanses and has found it is useful for cramping issues and lower bowel infirmities. This device provides random low frequency acoustic pulses to the contact point. The acoustic compression of the skin is transferred to the muscle fascia, surrounding tissue and bone inducing muscle relaxation The vibrations in this low frequency range may also stimulate peristalsis. My main concern with this technology are the vent holes that come into contact with the skin in the handheld unit that could be easily contaminated and very difficult to sanitize. I cleaned a lot of crud out of the diaphragm on the first repair which required complete disassembly of the handheld unit and copious dosing with 90% alcohol.
That being said, the VSST will produce all of the frequencies provided by these technologies whether square, triangle or true sine wave in a portable, sanitizable, whole body vibration device with BlueTooth “plug and Play” connectivity. The sensitivity of the table is such that it will reproduce the vibratory signature of a violin with all the nuances in a tactile, haptic, kinesthetic and bone conductive sensory stimulation format. The use of differential frequencies through dual drivers provides low frequency excitation and standing wave movement in the table. The pro headphones supplied with the VSST add stereo auditory stimulation and can readily render binaural beat sound tracks. Solfeggio music compositions are particularly effective in promoting meditative states, muscle relaxation, stress and pain reduction and vasodilatation effectively reducing hypertension. One 67 year old VSST owner has identified a lymphatic cleansing frequency that has transformed his athletic endeavors. This frequency is included, along with many other clinically identified healing frequencies, solfeggio compositions, hemi sync compositions, chakra tuning and original 528 tuned music compositions using a KORG synthesizer and an antique violin recorded while using the VSST as a tactile monitor, In a VSST purchase.
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Sound waves come in all shapes and sizes and forms.
The Sine wave is the most common wave form in nature with a natural smooth texture which can be seen by tossing a pebble into water. Sound waves travel in much the same manner in air as in liquid when a speaker cone compresses the air in front of it which cases a succession of waves moving away from the source, much like the waves moving away from the original entry point of the pebble in water.
A major difference in the way sound waves travel in water, which is non compressible, versus air, is that once the wave form is created in water it will travel indefinitely until it encounters an obstacle, flowing current, an other sound wave or thermocline, a temperature gradient. It is theorized that whales communicated around the globe before the advent of shipping lanes with each vessel creating their own sound waves.
Sound waves in air travel shorter distances due to the compressibility factor of air, with each wave being reduced in energy as it has to compress the next bit of space to travel any further and is affected much the same as a water wave in that it will be modified or reduced when encountering an obstacle or moving air current.
A musical instrument creates sound by displacing air such as striking a drum head, or frequency modulation of air by vibrating reeds or change in the air column by opening and closing holes. Stringed instruments create sound by transferring the movement of the string into a larger resonant cavity which then displaces air resulting in a complex mix of sine waves moving through the air.
cymatics, visual representation of sound effecting various media.
Square wave, destructive frequencies, artificially created with electronics, has multiple use in destroying pathogens as seen in this video
Triangle waves or other wave forms may find specific use in the future.
Importance of fidelity in reference to natural wave forms. Most humans have tactile resolution to 2 Hz or 2 cycles per second which is very close to the auditory resolution of 1 Hz or 1 cycle per second. Any discordance or inaccurate representation of audio versus tactile causes mental and physical stress.
Drivers that are poorly damped create overshoot, loss of control and limited frequency response also known as distortion or noise. This may limit or impair the natural healing qualities of the vibrational wave and is detectable by the human body as distortion which may cause general discomfort and even nausea or headaches.
Differential frequencies can be utilized in a multi channel vibrational output to create standing waves which can be made to move back and forth in the structure for a massage like effect improving blood and lymph circulation. Differential frequencies can also be used to create high amplitude low frequency beats which can be used to induce stimulation in the brain wave frequencies which usually occur in the 1 Hz to 8 Hz frequency range. Continue reading
Tom
I created a sound program that addresses the lymphatic system. I just used it for about 4 minutes. Result – my resting heart rate was 40 this morning, my legs felt like they didn’t weigh anything, my shoes were filled with helium. My warm-up mile this morning tied for all time low heart rate. Yesterday was an all-time high. I drove my heart rate to 162 and then recovered to 92 in less than 2 minutes today. Can you tell I’m excited?? I feel like I have hope again, that I might be able to run.
Tom, you got to try Lymphatic program (42 hertz)! It is amazing!!
The table has had a pronounced effect on Kari. I have been working on her for over 9 years. Usually I have to use three different technologies so that I can get deep enough. Last night Kari used the table and then I worked on her in the morning. I went directly as deep as I could on her gluteus medius and gluteus maximus. No yelps, no pain. It was amazing. There were no trigger points, no gristle, nothing anywhere including her sit bones. Really amazing. However on the front side of her body there was some tightness, so she currently lying face down on the table. We will see what happens there.
For me this morning, it felt like my legs were new, like there wasn’t any resistance in the muscles when I ran. Very different feeling.
Dwight Cornwell
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