Medicine.lv article on '"How does sound therapy help with stress and illness?"'
"People who spend their daily life under stress, suffer from chronic stress that has accumulated over time and 'turned' into various somatic symptoms, or suffer from sleep or eating disorders can be very well helped by vibroacoustic therapy," says Dzintra Zariņa, a psychotherapy specialist at the "Sound and Music" Therapy Centre and a certified music and vibroacoustic therapist.
Vibroacoustic therapy is a treatment method that uses low-frequency sounds (20-120 Hz) while the patient is in a special bed. As the human body has its own natural resonance system, external sound can adapt to the body's vibrations.
"When a person is healthy and not stressed, the body's biological resonance system is in balance. Stress, viruses, bacteria, overload and other harmful external factors upset the balance of the body's energy-biological resonance system, leading to lower immunity and disease. Low sound frequencies help the body to synchronise and return to its natural resonance system," says the specialist at the therapy centre.
Vibroacoustic therapy is used for people with neurodegenerative diseases because it improves blood circulation. It is also used to relieve chronic and acute pain: muscle, back, neck, shoulder, menstrual, headaches. It helps treat migraines, polyarthritis, rheumatism, fibromyalgia and various muscular conditions (tension, overstrain).
"Vibroacoustic therapy has the added value of being pleasant, relaxing and can also serve as a complementary therapy to a course of medication. In today's conditions, almost every person in Latvia could benefit from just that - deep body relaxation. Deep relaxation helps to 'trigger' the body's self-regulation and self-healing system. Of course, sound oscillations can be used in therapies, which, on the contrary, activate the body, but even then, deep relaxation is achieved at the beginning so that the body can self-regulate," says the specialist.
A course of therapy consists of 10 to 12 sessions. The duration of the effects of vibroacoustic therapy depends on the diagnosis and whether the person's life circumstances change, for example if they return to a stressful environment.
Historically, vibroacoustic therapy was founded by the Norwegian therapist and educator Olaf Skille (1968). He worked with children suffering from severe physical and mental health disorders, accompanied by symptoms of severe traumatic muscle spasticity. Skille discovered that low frequency sound vibration could be used to reduce muscle spasticity, and with it pain, and to achieve a relaxed state of the whole body, which improved the overall physical and emotional well-being of his patients.
This form of therapy has developed considerably and is widely used in the world today, both in medicine and rehabilitation.
Original article in Latvian available here.
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