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INNOVATION by INTU ITION
Inter-regional project partners
 Tiroler Waldbesitzerverband
Brixner Strasse 1, A-6021 Innsbruck, Austria
Phone+43 512 59 29-277 (-279)
Fax+43 512 59 29-208 (-275)
Heart frequency [beats / min]
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Wood imitation bed
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 Südtiroler Bauernbund
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Own
bed
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Schlachthofstrasse 4 / D, I-39100 Bolzano, Italy
Phone+39 471 99 93 27
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Fax+39 471 99 93 78
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dirz@sbb.it
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Stone Pine bed
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wbv.tirol@lk-tirol.at
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Sleep phases [30 min units]
Heart frequency
during the course of the night with the participation of
 Möbeltischlerei Binder Ges.m.b.H. & Co KG
Bergstrasse 4, A-8160 Weiz / Preding, Austria
Phone+43 31 72 25 63
moebel.binder@utanet.at
Mean vagus activity [log RSA rr in ms]
www.moebel-binder.at
 Forstbetrieb Imst der ÖBF-AG, A-6460 Imst, Austria
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1.55
Stone Pine bed
 Landesdomänenverwaltung Bozen, I-39100 Bolzano, Italy
Stone Pine
Positive health effects
of Stone Pine furniture
 Fürstlich Schwarzenberg’sche Forstverwaltung Steiermark
1.50
A-8850 Murau, Austria
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Own bed
 Bündner Waldwirtschaftsverband SELVA, CH-7001 Chur, Switzerland
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1.35
Wood imitation bed
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Sleep phases [30 min units]
Autonomic recovery
during the course of the night
Financed by
 European Union
 Province of Tyrol
 Republic of Italy
 Autonomous Province of Bolzano
 Own funds
Contact
HUMAN RESEARCH
Institute of Health Technology and Prevention Research
Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Maximilian Moser
Franz-Pichler-Straße 30, A-8160 Weiz
Tel.: +43 3172 44111-0 • Fax: +43 3172 44111-11
Harvard step test to determine
biological cost of stress
office@humanresearch.at
www.humanresearch.at
HUMAN RESEARCH
Institute of Health Technology and Prevention Research
Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Maximilian Moser
Franz-Pichler-Straße 30, A-8160 Weiz
Tel.: +43 31 72 44111-0 • Fax: +43 31 72 44111-11
office@humanresearch.at
www.humanresearch.at
Archive GROHAG
Institute of
Health Technology
and Prevention Research
The positive characteristics of the wood known as “the Queen of the Alps” (Stone or Cembran Pine;
lat.: pinus cembra) has been valued and used for centuries. For the first time this know-how
has been subjected to an experimental scientific analysis. In a blind study on 30
healthy adults – under the auspices of an inter-regional research
program – scientists of HUMAN RESEARCH
evaluated the effects of Stone Pine on
stress and the ability to recover.
HUMAN RESEARCH
Institute of Health Technology and Prevention Research
Ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Maximilian Moser
Franz-Pichler-Straße 30, A-8160 Weiz
Tel.: +43 31 72 44111-0 • Fax: +43 31 72 44111-11
office@humanresearch.at
www.humanresearch.at
ChronoCord – high resolution ECG recorder
Institute and methods
Stone Pine –
the natural way to a good night’s sleep!
Quality of sleep
in the Stone Pine bed
The application of the most modern sensor technologies
and evaluation methods of the Human Research Institute
(HRI) opens new possibilities in the measurement of stress
and recovery in the normal daily routine, whether at work,
In the second study a possible influence of the bed
during spare time or during sleep. The measuring method
ma­terial on the quality of sleep was investigated. The
repertoire used and constantly further developed at the
volunteers spent their nights, this time for a longer peri-
Institute makes it possible (among other things) to observe
od (~3 weeks), first in a Stone Pine (green), then in their
the autonomous nervous system as well as functions of
own bed and /or in a wood imitation bed (red). The
Wood imitation
the brain-stem in a non-invasive m
­ anner.
The heart frequency is the most important control variable
in a complex regulatory network, in which heart, blood circulation, respiration, temperature, metabolism and psychosomatic influences are involved. This gives the heart
frequency its typical temporal structure, which becomes
measurable as heart frequency variability.
Experimental procedure
A balanced, crossed repetitive measuring design was car-
Physical stress test in the Stone Pine room
ried out under psychological and physical stress situations
in the laboratory over 24 hours in everyday life situations
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high
lntot
RR
, lnLF
RR
, lnHF
RR
7.83 [ms2]
5.18 [ms2]
recovery
10:1
5:1
2:1
1:1
1:2
1:5
1:10
3.2:1 [-]
SDNN
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RR
, logRSA
RR
50.4 [ms]
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0.959 [ms]
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heart rate [bpm]
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87.7 [S/min]
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pulse respiration ratio
activity log
Demo Vigil
Vigilance test
Questionnaire
Supine pos. 1
11:15:00
11:30:00
11:45:00
12:00:00
12:15:00
12:30:00
12:45:00
13:00:00
time
“heart-work”. The subjective feeling of well-being of the
extraverted than beforehand. Could this be a reason
why pubs and other social rooms (in this region) were
measure­­ment of well-being, vigilance and subjective sleep
panelled with Stone Pine in former times?
quality.
Material for furnishing would appear to have a more
Stress
and recovery ability
in Stone Pine room
For the battery of tests carried out in the lab significant
subjects spending time in Stone Pine rooms and those in
ex­pressed itself in a lower heart rate during physical and
mental stress situations and following rest phases and / or
signi­ficant effect on well-being and health than hitherto
imagined. This opens up new fields of application for the
high-grade wood of the “Queen of the Alps”.
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Difference in heart frequency
[ beats / min ]
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2
the Stone Pine room the heart rate seems to be independ-
Difference in heart frequency
[Stone Pine — wood imitation:
25 h mean]
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Autonomic balance in different beds
(blue reflects recovery periods)
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Difference:
3,490 beats / day (3.16 %)
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ent of the atmospheric pressure.
ChronoCardioGramm of the entire measurement in the Stone Pine room
beats per day, which corresponds to about an hour’s
Psychometric methods were implemented for the
meteorosensitivity is a sign of an unstable circulation. In
Supine pos. 3
“saving” in the Stone Pine bed was about 3,500 heart-
rhythms characteristic of recovery were investigated.
room is dependent on the atmospheric pressure. This
Standing pos. 1
the organism in the course of the day. The average
ing generally fitter and, surprisingly, were socially more
heart frequency of the test subjects in the wood imitation
Supine pos. 2
reduced heart frequency and an increased oscillation of
Stone Pine subjects reported feeling more relaxed, feel-
during an accelerated autonomic recovery process. The
Step test
Standing pos. 2
The improved recuperation was accompanied by a
varia­bility, vegetative parameters and the biological
identically arranged “wood imitation” rooms. This
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imitation bed.
electro­cardiogram recorders the heart frequency and its
differences were found between the quality of recovery of
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in the Stone Pine bed compared to that of the wood
test subjects matched these physiological results: The
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activation
strain
logical condition. The sleep quality was clearly improved
Improvement Degradation
[Hz]
low
of the construction material on the physical and psycho-
of the test subjects. With the help of high resolution
Stone Pine
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intensity
0.5
frequency
ChronoCardioGramm
long-term investigation confirmed a significant influence
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SLEEP
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24:00
Time of day
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12:00
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Person
Saving of “heart-work” during the course of the day
by sleep in the Stone Pine bed