Finding the sound of health
Nick Claussen, Athens NEWS Associate Editor
July 5, 2005
Every year, people from around the country and the world travel to Lake Snowden so they can be treated, and they believe, healed by sound waves.
It certainly sounds odd, but are the people crazy for trying this method of health care, or are the rest of us crazy for ignoring it?
Sharry Edwards is the main person behind Sound Health, Inc., the place people are traveling to at Lake Snowden. Lake Snowden is owned and operated by Hocking College, and Sound Health uses a Hocking College building for its headquarters.
Edwards says she has a groundbreaking method of health care that could revolutionize medicine as we know it, and she says it all started here in Athens County. She has dozens of stories of people who have been helped by her, she says, though she never promises anyone that she can treat them.
She says that she has been recognized as an international scientist of the year, has been written about in numerous books, and is teaching people from around the country about her methods. Despite all this, most people in Athens County don't know who she is.
But what is Sound Health, Inc.? Why is it on Hocking College property? And does it help anyone?
SOUND HEALTH, INC., USES bioacoustics to find the reasons for health problems and treat the health problems, Edwards said.
When people come to the center with their health problems, Edwards or someone else talks to them about their situation, and then they test the people's voices.
The individual sits in one room talking into a microphone, and then Edwards' computers analyze the sound waves in the voice. From the sound waves, Edwards claims that she can tell everything about the person's body. She can tell if someone's cholesterol is high, if he or she is having heart or liver problems, if the person has allergies, if there is something wrong with the person's diet, or if he or she is suffering from a wide variety of problems.
During an interview at the office, Edwards tested my voice to check my health. She first had me say whatever I wanted for 30 seconds or so, and then had me talk about anything that concerned me with regard to my health.
In a few minutes, she gave me a printout that looked at the whole spectrum of my health, and she said she could read over it and look for problem areas. She even gave me some advice about things to watch.
The readouts looked at all different kinds of vitamins and other items in my system. They looked like a readout you might get at a doctor's office after a blood test. This printout was conjured up purely from my voice, though.
Edwards claims that each person's voice has a wide spectrum of sound waves, and that her computerized equipment can test each voice to see if the sound waves are in balance. It's much more complicated than this, but basically she has charted where the sound waves should be for different tests in the body, and if the sound waves for each test are not in balance, she can tell what type of health problems you have.
In addition, once Edwards finds out which sound waves are not right, she administers sound waves to the individual to get everything back in harmony.
Getting the sound waves back in harmony can help with allergies, diseases, injuries, mental-health issues, and very serious medical problems, Edwards said.
Whenever a patient comes to her, she never tells him or her that she can heal the person, but she tells him or her that she can administer sound waves as part of the research she is doing. If the person gets better, that's wonderful, but she is basically doing research work, Edwards said. She added that the sound waves don't necessarily help everyone, but sometimes that's because the people are not following the treatments that she suggests.
Bob Bethel of McArthur is one of the people who claims to have been helped by Sound Health, Inc.
In 1993, Bethel had a serious motorcycle accident that left his lower right leg severely damaged. Even though he received treatment and therapy for his leg, doctors told him he had little hope for a full recovery and his mobility was limited.
"I had a lot of pain," Bethel recalled. After hearing about Sound Health, though, he decided he had nothing to lose so he gave the treatment a try. Bethel added that he is an attorney and was naturally skeptical of the treatments. The treatments worked, though, according to Bethel, and his leg has almost fully recovered, although the scars are still evident.
"The swelling is gone. There is no pain anymore. I don't even think of my leg as being injured anymore," Bethel said. "I had severe limping and couldn't run at all. Now I can run, dodge, jump."
Bethel now works for Sound Health, trying to help the company grow and reach out to more people.
Edwards has other stories of people who say they have been helped by Sound Health, such as one woman who said her vision was improved, one 8-year-old girl who had her symptoms of autism relieved, and even a physician from Lancaster who says his multiple sclerosis symptoms have been relieved by Sound Health. The physician is now speaking on behalf of Sound Health, Edwards said.
She added that some other physicians are referring patients to her. Edwards also teaches individuals about her methods at the Lake Snowden office, and she teaches at Capital University of Integrative Medicine in Washington, D.C.
Edwards, her methods and her patients have been the subjects of magazine articles, films and books.
HOW CAN ANY OF this be legitimate, though? How can a person's voice tell you if that person has enough calcium in his or her diet, or if that person has a sore knee?
Most doctors would doubt that the sound waves can tell so much about a person or that people can be treated by sound waves. Traditional doctors have not embraced Edwards' methodology.
Although Edwards has her office on Hocking College property, Hocking College does not have any formal relationship with the business except for renting it space. According to Hocking officials, Sound Health pays $1,400 a month in rent, and that is the extent of the relationship between the two entities.
While Edwards said that many people in the area do not know anything about the work she is doing and the people from around the world she says she is helping, it's because many people in the area don't believe that what she's doing is legitimate, or they don't understand what she's trying to do.
Edwards argues, though, that this doesn't matter and that traditional medicine is catching up to her. She said a professor at UCLA is researching the same thing she works on, and she has read news articles about his work.
She also said that many types of medicine that people accept today were once considered crazy. She doesn't expect everyone to believe in her methodology, but she knows that many people do and she is trying to help them.
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