Sound vibrations can bring about physical, emotional and spiritual balance – an essential component of yoga, meditation and other wellness practices.
ART provides patient-specific resonant frequency acoustic energy into sinonasal cavities using an adjustable headband equipped with 2 bone conduction transducers and connected to a smartphone app. A pilot study revealed its success at alleviating nasal congestion.
Reduces Stress
Sound therapy uses sound and music to help the human body find healthy resonance frequencies, alleviating stress and anxiety while improving mood and promoting relaxation.
One study demonstrated how sound vibration therapy could reduce a participant’s self-reported level of stress. Though results weren’t statistically significant, participants who experienced acoustic resonance therapy felt significantly less stress after treatment compared to participants in another group who hadn’t.
Acoustic resonance therapy may offer more than stress reduction; it may also strengthen immunity and foster overall wellness. According to research, certain sounds can stimulate certain areas of the brain stem medulla, activate auditory nerve connections connecting all body muscles and cause a relaxation response with lower heart rates and blood pressure. Its effects may also include increasing serotonin production from within your own body which is known to help elevate mood and promote feelings of well-being.
Another study discovered that low-frequency sound vibration therapy can significantly decrease pain for patients living with fibromyalgia. While its results were not statistically significant, those receiving treatment reported reduced levels of pain and stiffness after receiving vibration therapy treatments.
If you are curious to try Acoustic Resonance Therapy (ART), it’s essential that you work with a trusted practitioner. A trained therapist can ensure a safe and beneficial session to help you relax and achieve wellness.
At a sound healing session, you’ll usually lie on your back while the therapist uses one or more instruments – most frequently singing bowls and gongs which produce ambient sounds to help induce relaxation into a meditative state; other practitioners may use drums, chimes, tuning forks or rainsticks in addition to these as ways of unlocking stagnant energy and stimulating relaxation responses.
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Relieves Nasal Symptoms
Nasal congestion can have a severe negative impact on quality of life, from sleep disturbance to decreased productivity at work and leading to further health concerns. Rhinitis patients commonly suffer from nasal congestion; treatment methods often fail. Art provides noninvasive relief through vibration therapy stimulation of nasal passages to increase circulation and alleviate sinus pressure – making ART an attractive treatment solution.
ART was demonstrated safe and effective for treating nasal congestion in a double-blind, sham controlled study involving 52 adults suffering from moderate to severe nasal congestion due to both allergic and non-allergic rhinitis. Participants were randomly assigned either ART or a sham treatment over two weeks based on clinical endpoints related to nasal congestion subscore of TNSS and composite score change; both clinical endpoints saw significant decreases by using ART as opposed to its counterpart in terms of clinical impact; repeat measures and time analysis confirmed these results.
Studies have demonstrated that humming frequencies can increase the size of aerosol droplets entering the sinuses, thus improving drug delivery and absorption resulting in faster and more effective treatment of sinus conditions.
Pourmehran et al (2021) conducted an experiment to study the influence of frequency on MS aerosol deposition using a plastinated nasal replica and NaF and gentamicin as markers. They used an automated sweep acoustic airflow nebulization technique designed to maximize drug penetration into nasal cavities; frequencies between 100 and 800Hz significantly increased NaF deposition into MSs while an optimal cycle duration of one second was determined for this procedure.
At the time of this study, patients in the ART group received 15 minutes twice daily of continuous sound transmission of their resonant frequency acoustic energy through their headband for 15 min each time; those in the sham group received the same treatment using an identical device but with tones outside its resonant range; results demonstrated that ART significantly reduced nasal congestion sub-score of SNSS as well as overall TNSS scores as well as improving patient-reported symptoms.
Promotes Relaxation
Sound vibrations have long been used to calm both mind and body by inducing the relaxation response, which reduces stress levels, increases focus, and fosters creativity. Sound therapy has been practiced across cultures around the globe as an ancient healing modality and spiritual practice; modern science is slowly discovering its mechanisms; now specific frequencies have been shown to directly impact brains to alter moods perception and physical wellbeing.
Acoustic Resonance Therapy uses low-frequency sounds that fall below human hearing threshold, yet are felt by the body as gentle pulsations. These vibrations stimulate both nervous systems and brains for maximum resonance effect that harmonize cells while encouraging healing.
Tuning fork therapy is another acoustic therapy method, employing metal forks tuned to the ancient solfeggio frequencies for optimal results. When struck, these tuning forks produce different frequencies when struck; most often these forks can be tuned to produce vibrational tones which promote health both physically and psychologically. Tuning fork therapy typically uses forks placed near or on the body that when struck are tuned with mallets or silicone hammers to produce vibrational sounds which travel throughout and release any blockages which might otherwise remain.
Drums, bells, chimes, Tibetan singing bowls and rainsticks are among the many instruments used for sound healing. All these instruments produce soothing tones to help relax you and promote deep states of relaxation while at the same time helping release negative energies such as emotions or thought patterns that prevent one from finding peace within themselves.
Sounds produced by these instruments are thought to promote emotional balance and boost intuition and psychic abilities, in addition to improving sleep patterns, relieving anxiety, depression and symptoms associated with premenstrual syndrome.
With prescription medication abuse on the rise, people are looking for alternative means of staying healthy and feeling their best. Many are turning to acoustic resonance therapy as an all-natural means of relieving tension, relieving pain, and improving overall wellbeing.
Improves Sleep
Sound resonance therapy uses sound and vibration to align your body’s energy system and generate positive physiological effects, such as improved sleep. Sound therapy has also been proven to promote healing and cognitive enhancement. Sound resonance therapy can be an invaluable aid before bedtime as it will help relax you for restful slumber – some even incorporate it into their meditation or exercise regimens!
Research has proven that acoustic resonance therapy can improve the depth and quality of sleep, reduce stress levels, promote mental focus and clarity, boost immunity, increase cardiovascular efficiency and lead to overall improvements in health.
As we get older, sleep becomes fragmented and shorter in duration due to an exponential reduction of slow-wave activity (SWA, EEG frequency range 0.5-4Hz) – representing depolarization phase of cortical neurons during Sleep Wake Syndrome (SWS). SWA also correlates with decreased spindle density and count which are critical components of memory consolidation through sleep (Mander et al. 2013).
aMCI is associated with decreased brain metabolites involved in clearing away toxic beta-amyloid (Ab) and tau neurofibrillary tangles involved in Alzheimer’s pathogenesis, specifically SWS which is essential for Ab clearance in both hippocampus and thalamus. This finding should be particularly concerning, since SWS plays an essential role in clearing away Ab in these brain regions.
Though evidence indicates that rTMS in the wake state can enhance cognitive functions, its impact on sleep-dependent memory and SWA is less understood. One study suggested tACS during a nap boosted SOs, spindles, and sleep-mediated memory in healthy young adults; however, this result was incompatible with findings from three other similar paradigms studies.
Studies that used different protocols to deliver stimulation and acustic therapy produced stronger effects; those using paired-associate stimulation delivered during sleep periods or non-stimulating intervals between stimulation pulses had the greatest results. Therefore, more research must be conducted in order to maximize the effects of acoustic resonance therapy in older populations.
