Heart Rate Variability (HRV) Testing

Doing the initial HRV scan and BrainTap session gives patients tangible, visual measurements, and objective data for what would normally be intangible physiological concepts concerning how their health may be suffering. The HRV shows how stress has major downstream effects on the body. It can serve as a motivator for patients, and a practical tool for the practitioner to monitor and resolve underlying issues at the root cause level. If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.

When used consistently, BrainTap can retrain the stress response at a deep subconscious level. The HRV serves as an assessment of a patient’s health status as well as a determination of treatment efficiency. It is able to objectively measure the impact of integrative healing modalities that may include dietary, supplement, exercise, sleep, detoxification, and emotional/psychological rebalancing. The use of BrainTap and HRV provides a visual representation of the body’s response to implemented treatment efforts and provides feedback, serving as a guide to gauge the success of or make changes to a treatment plan for improved results.

The FFT, or Fast Fourier Transform, is a digital tool that analyzes the Heart Rate Signal using time and frequency algorithms, measuring periodic oscillations of the heart rate signal’s different frequencies and amplitudes. This provides information on the amount of their relative intensity (termed variance of power) in the heart’s sinus rhythm as seen in the ECG.

The Fast Fourier Transform breaks down the ECG into its frequency-component bandwidths that correspond to specific parts of the nervous system, which regulates the body

• Low frequency (LF) corresponds to sympathetic nervous system regulation, or acute stress/fight or flight mode
• High frequency (HF) corresponds to parasympathetic regulation, or rest/digest/heal/detoxify mode
• Very low frequency (VLF) reflects the central nervous system (CNS) and its regulation through its downstream hormones accessed through HPA axis, as seen in “burn out” mode and a state of adrenal fatigue/exhaustion