@article{10.18756/jfg.2002.201, title = {{Heileurythmiewirkung auf das rhythmische System}}, shorttitle = {{Heileurythmiewirkung auf das rhythmische System}}, author = {HECKMANN, CHRISTIAN and M{\"U}NCH, CHRISTINE}, journal = {Jahrbuch für Goetheanismus}, year = {2002}, volume = {2002}, pages = {201--215}, url = {https://dx.doi.org/10.18756/jfg.2002.201}, doi = {10.18756/jfg.2002.201}, issn = {Print :1866-4830 Online : 2750-2341 }, language = {de}, abstract = {}, annote = {The effect of curative eurythmy on the rhythmical systemIn anthroposophical medicine eurythmy is used therapeutically inmany cases and with different forms of disease We report on two studies in which the effects of this therapeutic approach were studied with respect to the rhythmicalfunctional order of cardiac and respiratory rhythmsIn one study RIIEINGANS 1983 the effects of eurythmy were compared with those of a conventional endurance training ergometer bicyn cle This was done in two groups of spapatients during their 4weeks stayIn the other study MUENCH 2000 the patients of the department of psychosomatic medicine of the Gemeinsehaftskrankenhaus Herdecke were obscrved In this study eurythmy was performed as one part of the complex therapeutic conceptIn both studies heart rate respiratory rate and the pulserespirationratio Q PA were measured before and after the treatment ln both studies eurythmy resulted in a better balance of the autonomous nervous system The most important long term effect was a tendency to normalization of the pulserespiration ratio In all groups observed there was a trend towards the normal ratio of 4 heart beats to 1 breathing This could be observed in the clinic patients study 1 Here the normalization effect was even more pronounced in the patients treated With eurythmy compared with the group of patients treated with enduranee trainingnbsp} }