Sound tables were developed to provide controlled sensory input that may help calm the nervous system. As such, they’re useful tools for manual therapy, stress recovery, and autonomic regulation.
At VAT sessions, patients lie on a treatment table and experience synchronized vibration in their back, torso or legs depending on its design. This occurs because low-frequency audio frequencies are transmitted mechanically.
Sound Therapy
Our InnerSoul Tranquility Sound Table features advanced technology designed to deliver an incredible multisensory experience during massage therapy sessions. As you are immersed in soothing music and vibrational frequencies designed to activate parasympathetic nervous system activation – creating the calming “rest and digest” state – vibrations help reduce anxiety while improving mood and emotional well-being.
Mechanotransduction explains the therapeutic effects of vibration therapy: cells respond to pressure and vibration to trigger healing responses in muscles, fascia, nerves and even the brain. Speakers embedded into custom designed tables emit frequencies which vibrate directly against your body while penetrating deep into tissues, joints and muscles for therapeutic benefits that feel like soothing massage while audibly emanate beautiful music and tonal landscapes in your ears.
Vibrations augment the benefits of our manual massage, expanding its effects throughout your entire body. Vibrations penetrate muscles and fascia to alleviate knots and tension for improved pain relief, while increasing circulation through increasing oxygen and nutrients reaching tissues for enhanced relaxation of mind, body, and soul. In fact, regular VAT sessions have even been shown to boost immunity, making VAT an invaluable ally against illness! To experience maximum benefit we suggest including VAT sessions as part of a wellness routine every week.
Vibroacoustic Therapy
As part of an integrative holistic treatment regimen, sound and vibrational therapy can be an invaluable aid to helping patients manage chronic stress, anxiety, pain, or other symptoms. Vibroacoustic therapy dates back as far as ancient Greek and Roman times as an effective means of treating psychological issues; more recently it has gained momentum as an audible sound wave/vibration therapy approach in mental healthcare settings.
Vibroacoustic therapy is an alternative therapeutic service that uses rhythmic sound and vibration to address numerous symptoms and conditions, such as anxiety, depression, fibromyalgia and sleep disorders. A typical session will have patients sitting or lying down on a device which generates sounds and vibrations at a specific frequency; some therapists may use handheld equipment to target certain parts of their bodies directly with vibration.
Sound and vibrations synchronized with soothing music or audiovisuals create an enjoyable, multisensory experience. Sound/vibration therapy may be used alone to promote relaxation or combined with massage to increase overall therapeutic effects.
Acoustic therapy offers more than just relaxation – it also has several research-backed benefits. Vibroacoustic therapy has been demonstrated to stimulate alpha-motor neurons, helping improve movement disorders like Parkinson’s Disease. Furthermore, specific frequencies may reduce tremors and dyskinesia symptoms for people living with Parkinson’s.
From Pacific Northwest naturopathic medical schools to Arizona desert acupuncture practices, sound and vibration therapies are increasingly being recognized as part of comprehensive wellness treatment plans. Many naturopathic doctors now incorporate sound/vibration therapy into their protocols, according to peer-reviewed research findings.
One of the most effective forms of vibrational sound therapy is known as vibroacoustic therapy table (VAT). A VAT is a massage table equipped with speakers and vibration transducers that deliver therapeutic vibrations from 20Hz-80Hz, combined with soothing music to provide an immersive sensory experience and promote deep relaxation.
Massage Therapy on a Vibroacoustic Table
Combining soothing touch with resonating sound vibrations elevates massage therapy into an all-encompassing multisensory experience. Vibroacoustic sound waves may stimulate endorphin release to enhance therapeutic sessions; soothing vibrations may calm nervous systems to help you relax and let go of stress; this space for emotional healing provides you with the means to overcome everyday challenges more effectively.
Vibroacoustic sound therapy (VAT) can produce an immediate physical reaction within your body, stimulating your auditory nerve and the medulla of your brain stem to induce relaxing parasympathetic responses and soothe pain. VAT sessions involve lying fully clothed on specially designed vibroacoustic tables or mats while remaining fully clothed – these vibrations penetrate deep into muscle tissue, fascia, and bone structures triggering the body’s natural healing response systems and helping reduce stress levels, increase circulation, improve range of motion, soothe pain. VAT sessions usually feature music or tonal landscapes, although low frequency vibrations penetrate deep within muscles tissues fascia or even bone structures inducing relaxation responses and soothing pain relief responses that help alleviate symptoms associated with prolonged stress exposure to environmental noise or environmental pollution exposures as part of their treatments.
VAT sessions can be used to treat an array of conditions, from chronic pain and trauma, anxiety and insomnia to insomnia and more. By tapping into your body’s natural relaxation and stress-relief mechanisms, this form of therapy can provide significant pain relief that doesn’t respond well to other treatments, or enhance manual therapies and other forms of therapy such as therapeutic exercises that aim at alleviating symptoms for various conditions.
Vibration therapy can also assist with sleep issues by offering a gentle push towards healthier patterns of restful and deep sleeping. Regular sessions can promote good sleeping hygiene by making transition to full night’s rest less of an ordeal and increasing your likelihood of awakening feeling refreshed for the day ahead.
Prior to installing your vibrational therapy system, inspect the massage table surface for staples or tacks that could puncture VHB tape liners, as well as any metal objects protrusions that could block proper adhesion. Once your table is free from obstructions, lightly sand the wood surface using fine-grit sandpaper until uniform surface. Using folding models ensure that boxes can open and close without interference from hinges while cables are routed neatly through folding seams without pinch points forming.
Music Therapy
Vibroacoustic Therapy utilizes transducers, or speakers with specially tuned transducers, to deliver a soothing blend of music and vibrations into your body and mind. Resonating sounds trigger various physical and psychological responses in both bodies and minds alike; creating an immersive massage therapy experience while offering multiple wellness benefits.
Vibrations penetrate deeply into muscles and joints, relieving tension while aiding muscle relaxation. Sound and vibration also strengthen your immune system so your body can fight illness more easily; massage synchronized with music and vibrations creates a deep mind-body connection helping you relax and achieve balance in life.
Studies have demonstrated the efficacy of vibroacoustic therapy to regulate blood pressure, relieve headaches and pain, improve sleep quality and ease chronic conditions such as depression, anxiety and PTSD. It works through stimulating neurotransmitters that boost mood while decreasing stress hormones which allows the body to regain balance.
At a VAT session, you stay fully clothed and lie comfortably on the table. Relaxing music and vibrations help trigger mechanotransduction – cells responding to vibration and pressure stimuli to induce healing responses in muscles, nerves, fascia, and even the brain.
VAT can be highly effective on its own, yet for maximum effect can be combined with therapies like massage, breathwork and meditation to maximize effectiveness and bolster resilience for high-stress individuals and athletes. This approach may also be part of a comprehensive wellness program to address stress, fatigue and pain management.
