Frequently Asked Questions:

The Inner Balance Scan produces a fairly simple assessment report.

If you test your client in a single test mode, you get a simple “snapshot” of the client’s current status of the autonomic function. The report shows three diagrams – autonomic balance, regulatory efforts bar and well-being self-assessment indicator.

The autonomic balance diagram shows how active and well-balanced your client’s stimulating and calming functions are.



Ideally healthy individual should produce this diagram with a dot representing actual result in the center of this diagram indicating that both functions are normal and very well balanced. Depending on where exactly the dot appears on this diagram the assessment report produces a specific interpretation indicating what this could mean: it could be a state of relaxation response, or acute stress, or total autonomic dystonia. It gives you some clues what might potentially cause this state and what to do.

The regulatory efforts diagram indicates a state of overall activity of all regulatory mechanisms responsible for body adaptation. The higher this indicator is the better body function is. However extremely high value might be an indication of poor quality of data recording, which is specifically evaluated by the software.

If you test your client in Pre/Post mode and run two tests before and after something, e.g. your treatment procedure, you will get two dots on each diagrams and arrow will show in which direction changes occur.

 

The report gives you interpretations of both tests is the same way as in single mode. However you will intuitively see what kind of change has occurred in the autonomic balance as a result of your procedure.

The key element of the Inner Balance Scan assessment report is an autonomic balance diagram which indicates how active and well-balanced your client’s stimulating and calming functions are.



Ideally healthy individual should produce this diagram with a dot representing actual result in the center of this diagram indicating that both functions are normal and very well balanced. Depending on where exactly the dot appears on this diagram the assessment report produces a specific interpretation indicating what this could mean. If we number all 9 segments of this diagram from left to right and from top to bottom, then good results would be if the dot is located in segments 2, 3 or 5. Segments 7, 8 and 9 are considered as not good.

• Calming activity – the level of functional activity of the parasympathetic nervous system primarily responsible for body’s relaxation response.
• Stimulating activity – the level of functional activity of the sympathetic nervous system primarily responsible for body’s stress response.
• Regulatory efforts – the overall level of body’s regulatory activity including autonomic nervous system and other slower mechanisms of body regulation such as hormonal activity, major biological rhythms, etc.

1. Generally this product is used to assess current condition of the autonomic nervous system and its reserve capabilities. It is known that many health problems have the autonomic nervous system involved. The ANS is a central regulatory mechanism that makes all body parts functioning adequately responding to many internal and external factors. The purpose of such regulation is to quickly adapt to changes in the environment. Many diseases start developing when the ANS becomes unable to properly regulate body functions. At that time there are no common clinical symptoms yet, but assessing the autonomic function may show its dysfunction. If this appears consistently it should be considered as an early sign of an onset of some health problem. Although this assessment has a non-specific nature and cannot give a distinctive diagnosis, using it as a screening tool to see if there are any red flags risen by the organism could be very helpful.
   
   
2. The ANS is sensitive to various types of interventions having effect on its function. So it might be very helpful to use this product to evaluate such effects by either taking test before and after treatment procedures of by regular testing during the course of treatment to see if there is any positive effect of this treatment on the autonomic function.
   
   
3. Using challenge tests (cardiovascular health and baroreflex sensitivity tests) could be used to find even hidden or subtle problems in the autonomic function. The standard assessment at rest may not show any problem with the autonomic function. But these challenge tests provoke the ANS to respond to certain challenge forcing its adaptive capabilities. So subtle problems with the autonomic function could be found when no other testing methods would show anything wrong.

1. Health assessment systems based on evaluation of the autonomic function:
   • Heart Rhythm Scanner 3.0 – a comprehensive health assessment system providing three types of testing capabilities: autonomic balance test (assessing current body’s autonomic function), cardiovascular health test (assessing regulatory reserve of the autonomic nervous system and cardiovascular physiological adaptation capabilities) and baroreflex sensitivity test (assessing health of the core regulatory mechanism of body’s functional adaptation).
   • Inner Balance Scan 2.0 – a simple low budget tool for simple assessment of the autonomic function – its balance and activity level.
     
2. Heart rate variability (HRV) monitoring system:
   • HRV Live! – a comprehensive tool for measuring and monitoring the autonomic function in real-time using live HRV analysis. It can be used to assess full dynamics of the body’s autonomic regulation under influence of various interventions.
     
3. Stress management and health improvement tools:
   • Heart Tracker Professional – a comprehensive tool providing biofeedback training capabilities based on paced breathing techniques to help teaching patients how to reduce stress and improve various aspects of health (lowering blood pressure, strengthening immune system, improving digestive function, etc.)
   • Heart Tracker 3.0 – an inexpensive tool for individual biofeedback training based on paced breathing techniques as indicated above.