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Subjective and objective relaxation effects of low energy emission therapy

  1. Lisa Higgs BA1,
  2. Martin Reite MD1,
  3. Alexandre Barbault2,
  4. Jean-Pierre Lebet DiplEng2,
  5. Claude Rossel MD, PhD3,
  6. David Amato PhD4,
  7. Urania Dafni ScD4,
  8. Boris Pasche MD, PhD5,*

Article first published online: 10 FEB 2006

DOI: 10.1002/smi.2460100103

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Stress Medicine

Stress Medicine

Volume 10, Issue 1, pages 5–13, January 1994

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Higgs, L., Reite, M., Barbault, A., Lebet, J.-P., Rossel, C., Amato, D., Dafni, U. and Pasche, B. (1994), Subjective and objective relaxation effects of low energy emission therapy. Stress Med., 10: 5–13. doi: 10.1002/smi.2460100103

Author Information

  1. 1

    Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80262, USA

  2. 2

    Symtonic SA, CH-1020-Renens, Switzerland

  3. 3

    Clinique Bon Port, CH-1820-Montreux, Switzerland

  4. 4

    Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA-02115, USA

  5. 5

    Symtonic SA, CH-1020-RENENS, Switzerland

*The New York Hospital–Cornell Medical Center, 525 East 68th Street, Room F-436, New York, NY-10021, USA

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 10 FEB 2006
  2. Article first published online: 10 FEB 2006

Funded by

  • Symtonic SA
  • Renens

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Keywords:

  • LEET;
  • blood pressure;
  • systolic blood pressure;
  • electromagnetic fields;
  • sleep;
  • stress;
  • relaxation

Abstract

A device has been designed that allows the safe and homogeneous delivery of very low levels of amplitude-modulated electromagnetic fields to human beings by placing a spoon-shaped antenna in the mouth of subjects. This new method has been termed low energy emission therapy (LEET). In two separate double-blind crossover studies performed on a total of 104 healthy volunteers, the potential relaxation effects of a 15-minute treatment with either an active or an inactive LEET device were investigated. All subjects were exposed to both active and inactive LEET treatment sessions, with an interval of at least 1 week between the two sessions. Blood pressure and pulse were recorded before and after treatment sessions and a subjective questionnaire was completed by the patient at the end of each treatment session. A decrease in systolic blood pressure (p = 0.016, two-tailed t-test) as well as a subjective feeling of warmth (p = 0.012, two-tailed McNemar test) and muscular relaxation (p = 0.005, two-tailed McNemar test) was noted following active treatment sessions. It is concluded that LEET induces relaxation in healthy volunteers which is associated with a decrease in systolic blood pressure, no change in pulse, and a subjective feeling of warmth probably due to peripheral vasodilation. The data suggest that LEET may become a new therapeutic modality in the field of stress medicine.

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