Heart Rate Variability (HRV)
What is Heart Rate Variability? The straightforward answer is: a measure of the beat-to-beat variations in heart rate. Elaborating a bit more: HRV is a form of biofeedback therapy training that involves feeding back beat by beat heart rate data during slow breathing so that the breathing matches heart rate patterns. A biofeedback device shows the patient when they have maximized this interaction on a computer monitor. This affects the activation and calming of our nervous system. Most patients have great results after just a few treatments with Dr Nyree Abdool.
benefits of
HRV
HRV was the primary measure used to determine the health of Russian Cosmonauts, as this could be measured while they were in space. There is now substantial support that HRV can help a variety of disorders, as well as be used to enhance sports.
In determining the benefits of a medical intervention, there are 5 levels, with :MOST EFFICACIOUS” indicating a methods is among the best. HRV has earned the second highest level of “EFFICACIOUS” for the following:
- Anxiety
- Attention Deficit Disorder
- Headache- Adult
- Hypertension
- Temporomandibular Disorders
- Urinary Incontinence in Males
For the other areas, the research that has been conducted is very promising.
Probably efficacious (Third level):
- Alcoholism/Substance Abuse
- Arthritis
- Chronic Pain
- Epilepsy
- Fecal Elimination Disorders
- Headache- Pediatric Migraines
- Insomnia
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Vulvar Vestibulitiy
Possibly Efficacious (Second level):
- Asthma
- Cancer and HIV, Effect on Immune Function
- Cerebral Palsy
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- Depressive Disorders
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Fibromyalgia
- Foot Ulcers
- Hand Dystonia
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Mechanical Ventilation
- Motion Sickness
- Myocardial Infarction
- Post Traumatic Stress disorder
- Raynaud’s Disease
- Repetitive Strain Injury
- Stroke
- Tinnitus
- Urinary Incontinence in Children