Vibroacoustic Therapy may be effective in stimulating the Vagus Nerve
What is the Vagus Nerve?
The Vagus Nerve, also sometimes called the wandering nerve due to its extensive path, is a critical part of your body’s internal network. Here’s a closer look:
- Function: It’s the main nerve of the parasympathetic nervous system, which is responsible for your body’s “rest and digest” response. This means it helps your body calm down after stress, lowers your heart rate, aids in digestion, and regulates inflammation.
- Location: It’s a lengthy nerve, starting at the brainstem and traveling down through the neck, chest, abdomen, and all the way to your large intestine. Basically, it branches out to connect with many of your vital organs.
- Influence: The Vagus Nerve plays a role in various bodily functions, including:
- Digestion: It helps stimulate stomach acid production and muscle movement in your gut for proper digestion.
- Heart Rate: The Vagus Nerve helps slow down your heart rate and promotes relaxation.
- Breathing: It regulates the rate and depth of your breathing.
- Inflammatory Response: The Vagus nerve can help dampen the body’s inflammatory response, which is linked to many chronic diseases.
Overall, a healthy Vagus Nerve function is crucial for maintaining a balanced and relaxed state within your body.
Proactively Stimulating the Vagus Nerve is believed to promote relaxation, reduce stress, and improve overall well-being.
We suggest to explore our wellness sonic Vibroacoustic Therapy sleeve and mat to stimulate the Vagus Nerve:
- Vibroacoustic therapy involves using sound and vibration to deliver a therapeutic experience.
- This can be done through the sleeve that generate sound waves or vibrations that travel through the body. The transducers (low sound frequency speakers) convert the low sound frequencies that are transmitted into sonic harmonic vibrations.
- Since human’s body is 60% water and sound travels through water better the air, literally the body area where the transducers are located vibrate organs, bones, muscles, nerves and blood vessels.
- You place the sleeve on three major place in your body — neck, heart, belly and stream a single low sound frequency from your phone. The sensation is very soothing yet very powerful.
Potential Benefits:
- Some studies suggest vibroacoustic therapy may activate the vagus nerve through the vibrations stimulating nerve endings near the ear and chest and belly.
- This activation could potentially lead to positive effects like reduced anxiety, improved heart rate variability (a marker of vagus nerve function), and better sleep.
Current State of Research:
- The research on vibroacoustic therapy for Vagus Nerve stimulation is still emerging.
- More studies are needed to confirm its effectiveness and determine the optimal parameters for treatment.
Alternatives for Vagus Nerve Stimulation together with our sonic wave sleeve:
- Deep breathing exercises. The gentle sonic wave vibrations may synchronize with deep breathing.
- Meditation — our low sound frequencies reset-reboot-recharge
- Chanting or humming you can intone the vowels Ayyyyyyy — Eeeeeee — Iyyyyyy — Owwwwww — Uwwwwww or use the Buddhist OM as you breathe out slowly . You will feel the vibrations rising from your diaphragm.
Studies that are encouraging to do more research:
A pilot study on high amplitude low frequency–music impulvibroacoustic-sound-therapy.pdf (adailydoseofsoundtherapy.com)se stimulation as an add‐on treatment for depression — Sigurdardóttir — 2019 — Brain and Behavior — Wiley Online Library
IntJMentHealthPromot-26–30755.pdf (techscience.cn)
978–951–39–7791–7_vaitos15062019_120190629–79856–1myu20o-libre.pdf (d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net)
The Effectiveness of VAT in Alleviating Stress | Journal of Student Research (jsr.org)
Treatment of chronic back pain using indirect vibroacoustic therapy: A pilot study — IOS Press
- disclaimer — Vibroacoustic Therapy is a noninvasive sonic wellness device and equipment. It does not replace medical treatment.
