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Bioacoustic Therapy is a technique in alternative medicine that involves the analysis of sound waves produced during vocalization combined with presentation of low frequency analog sound in an attempt to promote healing. [1] "There is little scientific validation of either the principles or the therapeutic powers of bioacoustic therapy"[2]
While bioacoustics is a science concerned with the production of sound and its effects on living systems,[3] bioacoustic therapy is a "form of energy or vibration medicine."[2]
Description[edit]
Bioacoustic therapy is considered by its practitioners to fall within the broad category of sound therapy[4]
Bioacoustic therapy is distinguished from other sound therapy subcategories by the claim that human voice analysis can portray a person’s state of health. This analysis is claimed to detect frequencies the person emits, called by practitioners as a 'signature sound', which is claimed to represent vibrational energies of the body and its functions.[4] Many factors affect the frequencies of voices, and bioacoustic therapy claims to isolate and analyse those frequencies which are related to the health of a patient.[4]
Bioacoustic therapy takes a recording of a sample of speech, and turns it into a graph, which is then analyzed. Practitioners say these patterns give specific clues regarding the health of the speaker. When they believe they have found a section of what they see as discordance, low frequency sound is played which is claimed to balance the disharmony.
History[edit]
Bioacoustics as a therapeutic technique originated with Sharry Edwards in 1982.[4]
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References[edit]
- ^ Klotter, Jule (2004): “Human BioAcoustics & Sound Health, Inc.” Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients 250: 90-93. 2,991. Retrieved on 2008-07-15 from http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0ISW/is_250/ai_n6112464.
- ^ a b Liebowitz, Richard, and Linda Smith, eds. The Center for Integrative Medicine at Duke University (2006) "Bioacoustics Therapy” The Duke Encyclopedia of New Medicine: Conventional and Alternative Medicine for All Ages, p. 566. Rodale, New York, NY. ISBN 1-59486-494-2
- ^ Elizabeth von Muggenthaler (2004). “Bioacoustics Research” Fauna Communications Research Institute. Retrieved on 2008-07-15 from http://www.animalvoice.com/bioacousticsr.htm
- ^ a b c d Liebowitz, Richard, and Linda Smith, eds. The Center for Integrative Medicine at Duke University (2006) "Bioacoustics Therapy” The Duke Encyclopedia of New Medicine: Conventional and Alternative Medicine for All Ages, p. 567. Rodale, New York, NY. ISBN 1-59486-494-2
Further reading[edit]
- Edwards, Sharry. Creating Sound Environments. Sound Health Resources, 1997.
- Edwards, Sharry. Bioacoustic Biology. Sound Health Resources, 2002.