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Background Physicians often experience work-related stress that may lead to personal harm and impaired professional performance. Biofeedback has been used to manage stress in various populations. Objective To determine whether a biofeedback-based stress management tool, consisting of rhythmic breath...
Background Physicians often experience work-related stress that may lead to personal harm and impair...
Background The need for treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among combat veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq is a growing concern. PTSD has been associated with reduced cardiac coherence (an indicator of heart rate variability ) and deficits in early stage information processi...
Background The need for treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among combat veterans retu...
In 2007, the leadership team at Grinnell Regional Medical Center participated in a pilot project with the Institute of HeartMath (IHM) to assess the stress level of individual team members and its effect on the organization. At the beginning of the project, the leadership team completed a Personal a...
In 2007, the leadership team at Grinnell Regional Medical Center participated in a pilot project wit...
Ischemic heart disease (IHD) is rapidly becoming the leading cause of death in developing countries around the world. Psychosocial factors are now recognized as playing a significant and independent role in the development of IHD and its complications. Mental stress has been implicated as a trigger...
Ischemic heart disease (IHD) is rapidly becoming the leading cause of death in developing countries...
Chronic stress is among the most costly health problems in terms of direct health costs, absenteeism, disability, and performance standards. The Reformed Church in America (RCA) identified stress among its clergy as a major cause of higher-than-average health claims and implemented HeartMath (HM) to...
Chronic stress is among the most costly health problems in terms of direct health costs, absenteeism...
The need for a new health paradigm is irrefutable and well documented. The ever increasing number of complex chronic diseases that cannot be managed by the "pill for an ill" model of traditional healthcare has necessitated a medical paradigm that deals with the underlying causes of complex...
The need for a new health paradigm is irrefutable and well documented. The ever increasing number of...
This study assessed personality correlates to electrophysiological measures of prestimulus response (PSR). PSR is the body’s response to a future stimulus prior to experiencing the stimulus. PSR may be an approach to measuring an aspect of intuition. One-hundred candidates for the study comple...
This study assessed personality correlates to electrophysiological measures of prestimulus response...
Introduction and Background Since 2007, The Reformed Church in America (RCA) has offered employees the opportunity to participate in the Revitalize You program provided by HeartMath, LLC. McCarthy Actuarial Consulting, LLC (MAC) was retained by RCA to analyze their experience during 2007 and 20...
Introduction and Background Since 2007, The Reformed Church in America (RCA) has offered employees t...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of stress management training on quality of life, functional capacity, and heart rate variability in elderly patients with New York Heart Association class I-III congestive heart failure (CHF). While substantial research exists on stress managemen...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of stress management training on quality of lif...
The analysis of heart rate variability (HRV), or heart rhythms, provides a reliable measure of autonomic nervous system dynamics that is particularly sensitive to changes in psychophysiological state. Whereas common methods of HRV analysis typically quantify the amount of variability in a given reco...
The analysis of heart rate variability (HRV), or heart rhythms, provides a reliable measure of auton...