Vibroacoustic Sound Table

It is the "State of the Art" portable vibro-acoustic sound table system on the market today. The delivery system uses specially designed low frequency solid steel transducers, which act like electronic tuning forks. When strategically placed with special sound resonance chambers, these "tuning forks" create an awesome vibro-acoustic table. When one's body is lying on this padded tuning board, it becomes part of the sound vibration through direct bone and fluid conduction. It is an experience not easily forgotten, to say the least. The Neuroacoustic Sound Table Delivery Systems is used with an impedance-matched amplifier/receiver.

Any Sound Delivery System is Only as Good as That Which is Played through it.

The Audio Programs have been developed through much clinical research with thousands of patients and volunteers. They assist you in "Becoming the Sound" you feel through the Neuroacoustic Sound Table and hear though the headphones. Each of the Neuroacoustic Audio Program CD recordings have been especially engineered with precision low frequency vibrations to most effectively resonate the body and pace the mind into different states of consciousness for healing, deep relaxation, emotional release, enhanced therapeutic interaction, openness, meditation, etc.

Specific low frequency sound waves give the optimal effect of vibration through the body. The table is designed to deliver exactly those low frequencies which cause the maximum body resonance for the brainwave state desired.

Physiologic Response to Sound Induction Technology

The obvious stress reduction benefits of listening to relaxing music have been proven through numerous research projects in hospitals, universities and private clinical practices over the course of many years. Normally, hearing involves sound waves pushing air pulses against the ear drum, moving the mechanical joints of the middle ear bones which amplify these vibrations to the inner ear, pushing fluids into wave pulses, which move tiny nerve endings, firing signals through the 8th cranial nerve, directly into the Temporal lobe of the brain, which interprets these impulses as "sound".

By delivering these sound frequencies through the body directly, an entirely different system of the body - the spinal cord and areas of the brainstem and brain - are brought into play, offering the possibility of a much deeper whole-body response. With this delivery system we have the possibility of direct cellular stimulation. Direct stimulation of living cellular tissue using sound frequency vibration has shown marked cellular organelle response with a corresponding measurable increase of cellular metabolism and, therefore, a possible mobilization of a cellular healing response. Since the human body is over 70% water and since sound travels five (5) times more efficiently through water than through air, sound frequency stimulation directly into the body is a highly efficient means for total body stimulation, especially at a cellular level.

Sound frequency pulse waves played directly into the body also has a profound effect on the nervous system. The entire posterior one-third (1/3) of the spinal cord consists of nerve tract bundles whose sole purpose is the transmission of vibration sense data to the Brain Stem, Cerebellum, Pons, Medulla, Hippocampus/Limbic System, which are the emotional processing areas, and various areas of the Cerebral Cortex.

Far reaching possibilities are inherent in using this type of vibrational technology in the areas of massage, energy work, physical healing, emotional release work, hypnosis, meditation, relaxation, and stress reduction.

What is Vibroacoustic Therapy?

Vibroacoustic Therapy combines the physical vibrations of relaxing music with the vibrations of Low Frequency Tones. It was first developed in the 1980’s by the Norwegian teacher, Olav Skille. He explored the use of Vibroacoustic stimulation for severely disabled children with whom he worked, by playing them music through transducers pressed against a beanbag on which the children were lying. Skille discovered that the physical vibrations of sound could relax and stimulate the children and judging that bass frequencies had a particularly significant therapeutic effect, he combined the music with a pulsed low frequency sine tone.

Skille experimented extensively with Vibroacoustic Therapy and documented his findings in various published works, the largest being his Manual of Vibroacoustics (1991). He found that Vibroacoustic Therapy was beneficial for a variety of medical conditions and symptoms including asthma, autism, cystic fibrosis, cerebral palsy, constipation, insomnia, pain and Parkinson’s Disease (Skille, 1991). Skille described the effect of Vibroacoustic Therapy as being divided into three main areas:

Vibroacoustic Therapy is now practiced in many different countries, and research has established it as a useful therapeutic treatment for many conditions. The process of giving Vibroacoustic Therapy involves the use of recorded music, played through an amplifier and delivered to the body via a Vibroacoustic bed or chair – usually a bed or chair with speakers underneath the surface. It is this ‘vibration effect’ which is thought to have the therapeutic benefit. The two elements of Vibroacoustic Therapy, music and low frequency sound, both have a theoretical basis. Several studies have found that music/sound without sudden harmonic, dynamic or tempo changes is calming and relaxing (Smith and Morris, 1976, Hodges, 1980). In 1968 Skille and Juliette Alvin defined three universal principles which form the basis of selecting music for Vibroacoustic Therapy.

High frequencies create tension, low frequencies reduce tension (or assist relaxation).

Sedative music aids relaxation both mentally and physically.

Rhythmical music can invigorate, non-rhythmical music can pacify. Other research has shown that music is an effective pain relieving intervention for certain medical conditions (Spintge, 1993, Standley, 1995). Vibration has been used as a tool in physiotherapy. Eklund and Hagbarth (1966) found that vibration can enhance or reduce voluntary power and range of movement in spastic clients. Low frequency sound causes more perceptible physical vibration than higher frequencies. Wigram’s (1997a) study The Effect of VA therapy on Multiply Handicapped Adults with High Muscle Tone and Spasticity showed that the combination of music and a low frequency tone was more effective in reducing high muscle tone than music alone.

It was Wigram, a Music Therapist, who developed the practice of Vibroacoustic Therapy in Britain at Harperbury Hospital in Hertfordshire. His practice and research centered around people with special needs, and also includes research concerning Vibroacoustic Therapy as a treatment to reduce self-injurious behavior and anxiety. Wigram established a Department of Vibroacoustic Therapy at Harperbury Hospital(Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Trust). The Vibroacoustic Therapy Service treats clients with special needs for a variety of conditions and also hires out equipment for use in the community.

This by no means is a replacement to traditional Medicine, but coupled with what is prescribed by your doctor, may increase the healing process.
Low Frequency Sine Tone CD’s & Music CD’s This brief introduction is supplemented by other leaflets produced by The Soundbeam Project. Leaflets giving details of the research evidence for Vibroacoustic Therpay for pain, special needs and Parkinson’s Disease are available, as well as a list of contraindications to Vibroacoustic Therapy.

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