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Since BioAcoustics is not commonly offered by every
medical facility, clients are usually required to travel to a central
location to be evaluated. An overnight stay or longer is not unusual. Some
facilities require preliminary paperwork notifying the client, or
guardian, that these procedures, at this point, are research oriented.
Assessment rooms are usually equipped with viewing rooms so that
apprehensive parents or partners can observe. In the case of young or
challenged individuals, parents are often asked to assist in the actual
evaluation. Listening and vocal testing has been standardized. Talking
into a microphone, listening to sound and responding are the usual methods
of assessment. It is not mandatory that a client be able to hear or speak
to benefit from BioAcoustic procedures. Special and sometimes unusual
methods must be employed for deaf and/or non vocal clients.
Depending on the system, sound presentation and auditory responses
can take place using headphones or ambient sound. The choice of
appropriate sound formula sets for presentation is based on several
interactive factors. Voice assessment sounds to be presented are usually
selected through objective biofeedback such as blood pressure,
temperature, oxygen saturation and heart rate plus subjective feedback
such as the relief or elimination of symptoms.
Depending on the
symptoms, treatment can be either short or long term. Reassessment,
monitoring and program adjustment is essential, in most cases, for
continued improvement.
BioAcoustics often acts as a complement to
other modalities that might require the removal of obstacles or additional
information that is not available through conventional evaluation. An
advantage of vocal testing is that levels of symptoms, that are often
conflicting, can be separated and identified.
BioAcoustics has the
advantage of identifying and dealing with consequences previously thought
to be irreversible. Conventional diagnosis and labeling is not as
important as identifying the indigenous frequencies of the originating
patterns. The diagnosis of digestive upset is not as important as
presenting the frequency that will enhance the use of the offending or
latent digestive enzyme.
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