Reduce: Stress, anxiety, pain from injury and medical conditions such as Fibromyalgia, high blood pressure, high heart rate, muscle tension, back pain. Improve: Low mood and depression, sleep problems and Insomnia, creative thinking and problem solving and concentration strength and span, cardio vascular efficiency, uptake of nutrients and oxygen. Strengthen: The Immune system, Lymphatic System drainage and Toxin removal, self… Read more →
Clinical Benefits
The clinical benefits of Floatation Therapy are a hot topic in many circles of the medical profession and are being proven to have wide ranging and far reaching benefits.
This section of our website documents some of that research and the benefits of REST, supported by the research findings and evidence. Some of the clinical studies can be very scientific, often very extensive and quite heavy going in some instances, so we have attempted to provide a short synopsis to the research and the associated findings that makes them more digestible, whilst still providing you with links to the original research papers should you wish to read them.
Find out about some of the many proven benefits of REST and what Floatation Therapy can do for you or those close to you.
Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and treatment using Floatation
Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is characterized by a (more or less) constant state of excessive worry and anxiety, with symptoms such as poor sleep, muscle tension, irritability, and fatigue. GAD is a relatively common disorder, and has been associated with considerable suffering and functional impairment, as well as high costs for society…Treatment is usually found in the form of Anti Depressants,… Read more →
Decrease stress, depression, anxiety, and pain…then just float!
A study looking at stress-related ill-health such as depression, anxiety, and insomnia in relation to sick leave has come up with some fantastic findings and, through randomised trials, has proven the benefits in relation to receiving the aforementioned issues and their associated symptoms. The study demonstrates clear benefit of REST floatation and its ability to facilitate the reduction of “stress-related… Read more →
Study showing how Floatation REST affects Fibromyalgia sufferers
An in-depth study carried out in 2013 by Roderick Borrie, Ph.D., Tamara Russell, Ph.D. and Stefan Schneider, Ph.D. that studied the the affects of flotation therapy on sufferers of fibromyalgia. They looked at a variety of factors including pain and its effects, muscle tension, ease of movement, stress, energy levels, sadness, well-being, relaxation, anxiety and also performed a comparison analysis of… Read more →
We are all remarkably human…
Whether you’ve floated 100 times before or are thinking of taking the plunge for your first, we can’t recommend enough this podcast by the guys at Remarkably Human! A complete and total, extremely grounded, 360 degree exploration of Floatation Therapy… Check it out here… Read more →
Salt’s Bad For You… Well Not Ours!
The University of Birmingham’s School of Biosciences did a report on the ‘Absorption of Magnesium (Epsom Salts) Across the Skin’. “Why is this important?”, we hear you ask. “So what?” you say. Well it’s very important! It demonstrates, scientifically of course, that absorption of and bathing in Epsom Salts is a safe and easy way to increase the levels of… Read more →
Floatation = Preventative Healthcare
Published in 2014, a BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine article looked at research from Anette Kjellgren and Jessica Westman investigating the ‘Beneficial effects of treatment with sensory isolation in flotation-tank as a preventive health-care intervention’. Their study looked at the common backgrounds related to ill health such as; stress, depression, anxiety, fatigue, burnout and insomnia and how they are commonly linked to sick-leave… Read more →
Benefits of stress management
This paper looked at data from a variety of studies and research papers and focused on the benefits of secondary prevention, relaxation techniques being one of the most popular techniques for stress management. All relaxation techniques focus on reducing muscle tension, calming the mind, reducing symptoms of stress, and improving wellbeing. There are many relaxation techniques that are well documented and researched,… Read more →
Floatation thoughts…
The following quotes are take directly from a very interesting study by Anette Kjellgren, Francisca Lyden, and Torsten Norlander of Karlstad University Sweden that garnered peoples opinions of floatation therapy, their experiences and its effects and impact on them as individuals. Comments and feedback was taken from the subjects at varying stages of the study and they were asked about… Read more →
Improve your sleep… Reduce your stress…
A controlled research study authored by Anette Kjellgren of Karlstad University, Sweden, has confirmed that there is a “significant correlation between mindfulness in daily life and degree of altered states of consciousness during the relaxation in the flotation tank.” To clarify, this means that Floatation Therapy (as well as being relaxing itself) enables you to sleep better with a better quality… Read more →