Training For Resilience Under Stress
Dr. Arpaia developed the HRV apps over years of study on the relationships between stress and heart rate variability in his patients.
He first developed the apps to work with his patients, then began expanding their application to law enforcement and first responders, health care professionals, corporate training, and education. With the apps, individuals or teams can train to make more effective decisions under high pressure situations and to recover more effectively from the physical and mental strain of stressful jobs.
HRV Trace
HRV Trace opens a window into your stress-response system by showing the shape of your heartbeat pattern or HRV Trace. As your heart traces a path, beat-by-beat, across the screen, you receive instantaneous information that enables you to respond more effectively to stress.
HRV Trace’s Scenario Mode provides a major advance in training by enabling you to record and save audio and video from your environment with your beat-to-beat heart rate superimposed on the screen. You can then see how your stress-response system responded during the situation and notice how physiologic changes were associated with your environment and behavioral response. This gives you much more effective feedback on the application of stress-management techniques.
HRV Trace is designed for professionals working with patients or clients on stress management techniques.
With HRV Trace you can:
- record video and audio of the training session with the heart rate trace
- record sessions to review later
- add notes while recording or later during review
- adjust the screen to clearly view your unique heart rate trace
- add markers to timestamp important events during the recording
- export the data via email
- practice breathing techniques with the built in breathing videos
HRV Team
HRV Team is a top of the line app designed for professionals and trainers in a group setting. It applies the Scenario Mode of HRV Trace to a team. It allows a trainer or instructor to monitor the beat-to-beat heart rate of several individuals at once. This enables you to teach techniques to a group of people and give each person individual feedback based on their response. HRV Team also allows you to record audio and video with the students beat-to-beat heart rates superimposed on the video. This allows the students to see how they responded to the stress of a situation as individuals. They can also see how both effective and ineffective physiologic responses to stress can spread among the individuals of a team.
With HRV Team you can:
- add instructor information and photos
- add multiple students with their own photo
- monitor several different students’ heart rate trace at once
- record video and audio of the training session with the students’ heart rate trace
- fully adjust the screen of student heart rate data to effectively monitor all students
- save and review sessions for later
- add notes to sessions
- add markers to timestamp important events during the recording
- export the video recording and heart rate data via email
How Are We Different
The beat-to-beat changes in the heart rate provide a window into your stress-response system. Certain changes indicate a healthy, effective, and sustainable response, while other changes suggest over-reactivity that can cause unhealthy and ineffective responses. The HRV apps give you feedback within seconds on important changes in your heart rate pattern. Most apps provide feedback that is a summary of the past 30 seconds or longer, which is less effective since most stress responses occur in less than half a minute. The immediate feedback of the HRV apps enables you to quickly learn effective techniques for handling stress.
All data collected is private to the app. The HRV apps do not transmit any heart rate, location or other data to any third parties. The user has the option of emailing the data collected in a training session to a third party but otherwise all data remains private to the app.