Using a healing robot for the scientific study of Shirodhara.

One of the critical problems in the study of physiotherapy of Oriental medicine is not being able to use the same reproducible stimulation, especially in Ayurvedic oil treatments. To address this problem, we developed a healing robot which conducts shirodhara (an oil treatment) in a computerized rep...

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Veröffentlicht in:	IEEE Engineering in medicine and biology magazine 24, 2 (2005).
1. Verfasser:	Uebaba, K.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	English
Schlagworte:	21 to 56 year. Ayurvedic oil treatments. CO/sub 2/ excretion. Oriental medicine. Altered consciousness states. Anxiety. Autonomic nervous system. Awake state. Blood pressure monitoring. Bradycardia. Brain stem. Chest respiratory movement. Decreased tidal volume. Deep restfulness. Electrocardiogram R-R intervals. Expired gas analysis. Frontal lobe. Healing robot. Heart rate. Impedance cardiography. Intermittent blood pressure monitoring. Limbic system. Meditation. Physio-psychological changes. Physiotherapy. Power spectrum density. Shirodhara. Sleep state. Taila dhara. Technician.