High Response of Human Muscles to Soundwaves in Electromyography and Artificial Intelligence Based Studies Supports the Effectiveness of Sound Therapy and Confirms the Existence of Sound-Induced Diseases
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Human Muscle, by virtue of its nature is a good medium of sound propagation into the body where the propagated soundwaves can positively or negatively influence biological homeostasis from atomic, molecular and cellular levels to systemic level. A sound is a vibration moving through a medium as a mechanical wave composed of mountain and valley shaped compressions and rarefactions called soundwaves. Soundwaves can be of natural origin and can equally be generated or created. Music is sound and sound can be music but not always except when noise is perceived as music. Both music and noise are sound, but while music has a discrete structure with a pleasing nature, noise has a continuous structure with unpleasing nature. Sound heals and music heals but any of them with abnormal entropy can kill. Sound therapy and music therapy are cost effective none-invasive medical remedies that involves no surgeries or medications. Everything vibrates and anything that vibrates vibes with vibrating sound, music, noise or other matter, and the effects can be healthful or unhealthful. Many cultures in antiquity indulged in several sound healing practices. For instance, the ancient Igbos understood the adsorptive, absorptive, adaptive or responsive nature of humans or human muscle to sound energy, and to sun energy, water energy, earth energy and air energy that they summed up and called Ahịa-Anọ, so they meditatively listened to natural sounds or sounds made from their native instruments while undergoing sun baths, water cleansing, earthing and air baths for all-encompassing healing. The sounds that those ancient Igbos listened to while undergoing these frequency energy therapies included sounds from animals, vegetation, wind, rainfall, waterfalls, flowing waters such as stream, river, ocean, and sounds of mbem or elele chants, and sounds from their native instruments such as ụbọ, ọja, ogele, ịgba, udu, aro, ọyọ, ịchaka, ekwe, and ataṅịrị. To amplify and venerate sound effects, the ancient Igbos built gigantic sound instruments called Oke Ikoro just as they built step pyramids that by age and cultural relevance and essence rival or precede those of ancient Egypt and Nubia in veneration of Earth Energy called Mmụọala and other Ahịa-Anọ Energies by association, and during their celebrations, several melodious elele chants and music sounds were played for several purposes including healing. Soundwaves, whether by generation or of natural origin are a product of vibration that its transmissions is through air, solid or water medium. Human body is predominantly water, so it is a good medium of sound propagation. Any soundwave that influences this human-water medium during propagation can influence the human health. Calm soundwave calms biological homeostasis resulting in health while chaotic soundwaves causes chaos in biological homeostasis resulting in inflammations and finally in ill-health. What we call ill-health or disease is actually an inflammation in cells’ mitochondria of affected organ(s) or system(s). This project work used values of average muscle response and average accuracy of AI models that I built to delve into a comprehensive review of research studies on both therapeutic and harmful effects of soundwaves on human-beings.
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