Vibroacoustic stimulation: Difference between revisions

'''Vibroacoustic Stimulation (VAS)'''

Father of Vibroacoustic Therapy (VAT), Olav Skille, a well known Norwegian scientist, introduced VAT and VAS to the world in 1960’s. Low frequency tactile sound vibrations were used to stimulate body cells into therapeutic states of relaxation and healing. This treatment modality has been used as a tool to help patients with different health conditions including: Chronic Pain Syndrome, Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Parkinson’s disease, Fibromyalgia, Insomnia, Depression and Anxiety disorder, Chronic neck and back pain, Arthritis, ADD, ADHD, Asthma, Addiction, COPD, Pressure Ulcers (Bed Sores), Rett Syndrome, etc.<ref>Skille, Olav. "VAS’s unique life element". VIBRAC center, Jyväskylä University, Finland, 2013.</ref> <ref>Dileo, C. "Music Vibration and Health". New Jersey; Jeffrey Books. Eklund, G. and Hagbarth, K.E. "Motor effects of vibratory muscle stimuli in man. EEG and Clinical", 1965.</ref><ref>Wigram, A. (1993) The Feeling of Sound – The effect of music and low frequency sound in reducing anxiety in challenging behaviour in clients with learning difficulties. In Payne, H. (Ed.) Handbook of Enquiry in the Art Therapies, ‘One River, Many Currents’. London: Jessica Kingsley Publications.</ref><ref>Wigram, T. (1996) The Effects of Vibroacoustic Therapy on Clinical and Non-clinical Populations. Unpublished PhD Thesis, London University.</ref><ref>Wigram, T. (1997a) The Effect of VA Therapy on Multiply Handicapped Adults with High Muscle Tone and Spasticity. In Wigram, T. and Dileo, C. (Eds.) Music Vibration and Health. New Jersey: Jeffery Books.</ref><ref>Wigram, T. (1997b) Vibroacoustic Therapy in the Treatment of Rett Syndrome. In Wigram, T. and Dileo, C. (Eds.) Music Vibration and Health. New Jersey: Jeffery Books.</ref><ref>Nayyar, Anjum. "Good vibrations: using sound to treat disease". University of Toronto News, May 4, 2012. [http://www.news.utoronto.ca/good-vibrations-using-sound-treat-disease]</ref><ref>Washington: National Association of Music Therapy. Skille, O. (1991) Manual of VibroAcoustics. Levanger, Norway: ISVA Publications.</ref>

'''Fetal Vibroacoustic stimulation''' is the application of a vibratory sound stimulus to the [[abdomen]] of a [[pregnancy|pregnant]] woman to induce [[Cardiotocography#Accelerations|FHR accelerations]]. The presence of FHR accelerations reliably predicts the absence of [[fetus|fetal]] [[Acidemia#Metabolic_acidosis|metabolic acidemia]]. Vibroacoustic stimulation is typically used during a nonstress test (NST).<ref name="isbn1-84214-333-6">{{cite book |author=Chervenak, Frank A.; Kurjak, Asim |title=Textbook of Perinatal Medicine, Second Edition (Two Volumes) |publisher=Informa Healthcare |location= |year=2006 |pages=963 |isbn=1-84214-333-6 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=}}</ref><ref name="FHM">{{cite book |title= Fetal Heart Monitoring: Principles and Practices|last= Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses |authorlink= AWHONN|editor= Audrey Lyndon, Linda Usher Ali|edition= 3rd|year= 2005|publisher= Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co|location=Dubuque, IA |isbn= 978-0-7575-6234-1}}</ref>

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