Flotation therapy helps veteran with PTSD
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BY: Max Darrow
POSTED: 5:29 PM, Jul 30, 2017
UPDATED: 1:50 PM, Jul 31, 2017
TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) – The contraption is known by a variety of names: sensory-deprivation tanks, isolation tanks, flotation tanks. They’re chambers full of a mixture of water and 800 pounds of epsom salt, designed to make a person feel weightless. Professional athletes are known to use them, but here in Tucson, some veterans are using them to help cope with PTSD.
Bruce Siegal is a U.S. Army veteran who served in Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Hawaii between 2003 and 2013. He was skeptical about flotation therapy when he first heard about it. But now, he floats for an hour every week at Cloud Nine Flotation.
The owner, Kalyn Wolf, sees a variety of clients of all ages and backgrounds, many are veterans. Once a person walks through her doors, she wants them to feel a peaceful and soothing energy.
“Relaxation starts from the moment you walk in,” she said.
Wolf explained people will stay in the tank for either 60 or 90 minutes. At first, there’s some calming music, but after a few minutes, the music fades out and the lights fade to black.
“What this does is it allows the person to get away from all of that outside stimulus so that they can experience nothingness,” Wolf said. “It’s in the nothingness where people find their healing.”
Siegal struggles with some PTSD, and now swears by this therapy…continue reading
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A February 2018 study published in the PLOS Journal found that a mere one-hour float led to signifiant reductions in anxiety, stress, muscle tension, pain and
