Good vibrations: using sound to treat disease
 

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-0...s-disease.html

...Bartel and his team in the new Music and Health Research Collaboratory (MaHRC) are exploring the medical effects of low frequency sound and have shown that this therapy can play a key role in reducing the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.

Vibroacoustic therapy (VAT) consists of low sound frequencies that are transmitted to the body and mind through special transducers that convert the sound to inner body massage. MaHRC associates Heidi Ahonen and Quincy Almeida treated two groups of Parkinson’s patients (20 with dominant tremor symptoms and 20 with slow/rigid movement symptoms) with five minutes of 30 Hz vibration.

Both groups showed improvements in all symptoms, including less rigidity and better walking speed with bigger steps and less tremor...


..."Also known is that 40 Hz brain waves seem to be carriers of information between the parts of the brain that control movement. So adding extra stimulation in that zone should help that communication and so assist in movement control.”...

the low down
 

those 30 cycles per second sound waves are down there where a lot of hip hop and rap have their bass and kick drum frequencies. so next time you pull up to the stop light and the car next to you has that earth-shaking, intestine-drattling, door-bulging sound emanating, don't assume it's going to be a carload of heavily tatooed kids. might be one of us parkies improving our motor responses by getting down with a loud dose of Kanye West or Jay-Z.

jon

jon,

i have to laugh reading your post and rememebering the day when i put a recording studio quality stereo in my blazer with custom 16" woofers in built in cabinets and rocked out listening to deep base sounds from the doobie brothers, kenny rogers, beatles, eagles- etc-i liked to let the base pound right through my heart ! heres one to start your day............
sounds great with excellent speakers......http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5-WaEwrXak
sharilyn

See Life Vessel as a possible treatment delivering this kind of modality.

TrishaPDX

One interesting thing about this extra low sound is that the roar of a tiger has a big component made up of those frequencies. Even though nothing is heard consciously, the "silence" will freeze its prey in place for a vital few seconds.