title: Unprecedented improvements in short-term heart rate variability due to Thought Field Therapy: response to the Pignotti retraction.
abstract: Short-term heart rate variability (S-HRV) is a valid and reliable measure of health and therapy effectiveness. Pignotti makes critical assertions about S-HRV with no evidence or authoritative support for these curious assertions. Short-term measures have advantages over long-term measures. The power of Thought Field Therapy (TFT) is demonstrated through unprecedented HRV improvements as well as other physiologic indices such as skin color, microscopic measures, and increases in T-cell numbers after successful TFT. Bilchick and associates' hypothesis (2002), "Each increase of 10 ms in standard deviation of normal-to-normal (SDNN) conferred a 20% decrease in risk of mortality (p = .0001)," is a bold and speculative position that appears to have general, if not highly specific, merit when applied to all groups investigated with HRV.
authors.affiliation: Private Practice. roger@tftrx.com
authors.forename: Roger J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Callahan
mesh_terms: D003863:Depression / Q000628:therapy*; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D016896:Treatment Outcome