Dry-float
Dry-floating – Evidensbaseret restitution
Dry-floating giver oplevelsen af vægtløshed via en specialmembran, der aflaster kroppen – uden kontakt med vand. Metoden er udviklet som en kontrolleret form for sensorisk aflastning med dokumenterede effekter på stress og restitution.
Hvad viser forskningen?
Stress og mental belastning
Studier viser, at floating kan reducere stress, angst og depressive symptomer allerede efter få sessioner. Deltagere rapporterer forbedret humør, øget ro og bedre energiniveau (Kjellgren et al., 2011; 2014).
Et amerikansk studie fandt tilsvarende, at blot én session kunne reducere angst og fremme dyb afslapning (Feinstein et al., 2018).
Effekten ses særligt hos personer med høj stressbelastning, hvor floating kan bidrage til forebyggelse af udbrændthed.
Fysisk restitution og smertereduktion
Hos atleter er floating forbundet med reduceret muskelømhed og forbedret restitution (Driller et al., 2016). Studier viser også lavere blodlaktat efter behandling, hvilket indikerer hurtigere fysiologisk genopretning (Morgan et al., 2013).
Derudover rapporteres reduceret smerteintensitet og forbedret fysisk velvære (Kjellgren et al., 2011).
Hvorfor dry-floating?
Dry-floating gør metoden mere tilgængelig:
Ingen vandkontakt, ingen badning, minimal forberedelse. Det reducerer ressourceforbrug og tidsforbrug – uden at gå på kompromis med den dokumenterede effekt.
Perspektivet:
Floating er ikke en mirakelkur, men evidensen peger på, at kontrolleret sensorisk aflastning kan være et effektivt redskab til både mental og fysisk restitution – især i en hverdag præget af konstant stimulering.
Referencer
Obada Al Zoubi, Masaya Misaki, Jerzy Bodurka, Rayus Kuplicki, Colleen Wohlrab, William A. Schoenhals, Hazem H. Refai, Sahib S. Khalsa, Murray B. Stein, Martin P. Paulus, Justin S. Feinstein, Taking the body off the mind: Decreased functional connectivity between somatomotor and default‐mode networks following Floatation‐RES, Human Brain Mapping, 2021
Sahib S. Khalsa, Scott E. Moseman, Hung-wen Yeh, Valerie Upshaw, Beth Persac, Eric Breese, Rachel C. Lapidus, Sheridan Chappelle, Martin P. Paulus and Justin S. Feinstein, Reduced environmental stimulation in anorexia nervosa: an early phase clinical trial, Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
Vipan Broderick, Liis Uiga, Matthew Driller, Flotation-restricted environmental stimulation therapy improves sleep and performance recovery in athletes, Performance Enhancement & Health, 2019
Justin S. Feinstein, Sahib S. Khalsa, Hung Yeh, Obada Al Zoubi, Armen C. Arevian, Colleen Wohlrab, Marie K. Pantino, Laci J. Cartmell, W. Kyle Simmons, Murray B. Stein, and Martin P. Paulus, The Elicitation of Relaxation and Interoceptive Awareness Using Floatation Therapy in Individuals With High Anxiety Sensitivity, National Center for Biotechnology Information, 2018
Justin S. Feinstein, Sahib S. Khalsa, Hung Yeh, Obada Al Zoubi, Armen C. Arevian, Colleen Wohlrab, Marie K. Pantino, Laci J. Cartmell, W. Kyle Simmons, Murray B. Stein, and Martin P. Paulus, Examining the short-term anxiolytic and antidepressant effect of Floatation-REST, Biological Psychiatry CNNI, 2018
Kristoffer Jonsson and Anette Kjellgren, Promising effects of treatment with flotation-REST (restricted environmental stimulation technique) as an intervention for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD): a randomized controlled pilot trial, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2016
Matthew W. Driller a, Christos K. Argus, Flotation restricted environmental stimulation therapy and napping on mood state and muscle soreness in elite athletes: A novel recovery strategy? , Journal Of Elsevier, Performance Enhancement & Health 5, 60–65, 2016
Anette Kjellgren, Jessica Westman, Beneficial effects of treatment with sensory isolation in flotation-tank as a preventive health-care intervention – a randomized controlled pilot trial, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, volume 14, Article number: 417, 2014
Paul M. Morgan, Amanda J. Salacinski, and Matthew A. Stults-Kolehainen, The acute effect of floatation restricted environmental stimulation technique on recovery from maximal eccentric exercise, Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 2013
Anette Kjellgren , Hanne Buhrkall , Torsten Norlander, Preventing Sick-leave for Sufferers of High Stress-load and Burnout Syndrome: A Pilot Study Combining Psychotherapy and the Flotation tank, International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy
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