Heart Sound Recorder Testing
At LeMay Chiropractic & Wellness, we believe in offering patients the best services to help them lead a naturally healthy life.
In addition to chiropractic care, and other nutritional tools like the ZYTO machine and Tanita scale, we are proud to offer the Heart Sound Recorder (HSR) as a fantastic, time-tested device for monitoring cardiovascular stress for men, women and children.
What is a Heart Sound Recorder machine?
The Heart Sound Recorder is a computer-based, low risk, general wellness monitor which uses the principles of auscultation to acquire, display, record and save heart sounds. Auscultation is the action of listening to sounds from the heart, lungs, or other organs, typically with a stethoscope, as part of a medical diagnosis. This used to be common practice in medical care, and it is still an unbelievably valuable tool to assess heart health.
The unique aspect of the HSR is that instead of a stethoscope the machine uses an accelerometer to measure heart sounds, which allows the computer to pick up on a wider variety of sounds than can be heard by the human ear. An accelerometer is a device that measures the vibration, or acceleration of motion of a structure. During an HSR test, the accelerometer is translating the dynamic acceleration (beating) of the heart into a voltage measurement that the tester can read and interpret. The HSR is specifically looking at the mechanical function of the heart as it beats and accelerates through space whereas an electrocardiograph (EKG) is measuring the electrical function of the heart.
An EKG records only the surface electrical impulses as they move through the nerves of the heart tissue. Its purpose is primarily to indicate if the heart tissue has undergone any trauma or permanent damage on an electrical basis. The EKG does not analyze valvular function, muscle efficiency, motor nerve function or blood viscosity. The EKG’s sole purpose is to diagnose disease, while the HSR looks at your heart function to analyze nutrient deficiency, improve health and improve longevity.
The HSR, in my opinion, is a lifesaver! I am all for preventing disease from ever getting started, as well as correcting any deficiencies that have developed so that my patients can live vibrant long lives. That’s what the HSR helps me to do.
Dr. LeMay
Why should I get an HSR test?
The #1 killer in the US is heart disease. According to the CDC in 2019, in the United States:
- Someone has a heart attack every 40 seconds.
- One person dies every 36 seconds in the United States from cardiovascular disease.
- About 655,000 Americans die from heart disease each year—that’s 1 in every 4 deaths.
- About 1 in 5 heart attacks is silent—the damage is done, but the person is not aware of it.
What’s worse, it can be very hard to detect early signs of an inefficient heart. Many people are unaware there is any issue with their heart at all until some major event, like a heart attack, lands them in the hospital…that’s if they survive it! The HSR is a great tool for looking at the nuances of how the heart beats and determining early challenges that might not be obvious on other types of cardiac exams/tests.
Every day, your heart beats 100,000 times, sending 2,000 gallons of blood surging through your body. This means that there are a lot of opportunities for the heart to beat inefficiently or poorly depending on your heart health. Your heart is the most important muscle in the body and it is the first muscle that responds to nutrition. Your heart absorbs nutrients very quickly because your body is primarily concerned with keeping it beating!
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