Davids Story V3
David's story
He measured brainwaves for a living. He still asked the wrong question.
Everybody asks what frequency the VIBE runs. It doesn't run one. It plays chords. And one of them ended years of limping in about a week.
David JohanssonFormer neurofeedback practitioner. Retired hockey player. Spent years putting sensors on people's heads to watch their brainwaves. Then one fixed his heel.
Waves were his job.
About two and a half years ago, David and his wife Shari ran a neurofeedback practice. Their whole business was oscillation: alpha, beta, delta, theta, the rhythms a brain runs on, read off an EEG and trained session by session.
So when David caught Resona Health's founder, Mark L Fox, on a webinar talking about a pocket device that works on frequency, he reached out with the question a wave guy asks: let's hook it up to the EEG and measure what it actually does.
He ordered one for the practice. Before any client touched it, he tried it on himself.
The heel had no rhythm left.
Achilles tendonitis, left heel, years of it. Physical therapy, stretching, not stretching. Nothing moved it.
And David played hockey. So the beat of his life went: game, limp a week, lace up, game, limp a week. He'd made peace with it the way you make peace with a leaky roof.
It doesn't run a frequency. It plays chords.
Here's the thing the wave guy learned from the rocket scientist. When David asked what frequency the device runs, Mark L Fox gave him the answer he gives everyone.
The question everyone asks
What frequency does it run?
The answer
It plays pairs of frequencies together, like a chord on a guitar, and the chord changes every one to four minutes. A protocol is a song.
Which is why the instruction that comes with every protocol is the same: run it start to finish. Stopping halfway through Tendonitis is stopping halfway through a song. Nobody's ever been satisfied by that.
So David ran the whole song. Tendonitis on the heel, alternating with General Inflammation, back and forth, for about a week.
One morning: no stiffness. He didn't trust it. He walked out to the field next to his house and ran sprints. Played a hockey game the next day. Felt fine the day after that.
"I mean, it felt miraculous. It really did. I was elated. It was the best feeling ever."
David, on the week the limp stopped
Second song: March.
The device arrived right as allergy season did. David had severe seasonal allergies, so he added the Allergy protocol, often running it and General Inflammation the same day, and found the two together moved things faster than either alone.
That first season he made it through on about five allergy pills. This year, none.
Shari picked her own song. Sleep, run about an hour before bed. It helped her considerably.
And from Mark's side of the conversation, the song nobody pressed play on: he'd given a device to a friend, Ron, who called three months later to say he hadn't breathed this well since he was twelve. Ron had used it for the first time the night before. A song you never play does nothing, no matter how good the chords are.
Retired from the rink. Not from the road.
David hung up the skates last year after a dislocated shoulder and another concussion. He switched to running and jogging, the exact pounding that used to set the heel off.
This year he and Shari spent a month in Arkansas. One day they hiked eleven and a half miles up and down the Ozarks with the dogs, one eleven and a half years old, the other three.
David is 62. He'll be 63 in November. The dogs, he says, were suffering more than he was. He had no problems at all.
How a measurement guy checks a wave.
David and Shari have since sold the practice. He does training, consulting, and coaching now, and writes about every product he's tested on a site of his own. The VIBE review sits at the top: his experience, how PEMF works, why something this small does what units costing many thousands of dollars do.
He also kept one habit from the EEG days. People forget how bad they felt. In the practice, every ten sessions he'd check a client's top ten symptoms, because someone will say "I'm not improving" in the same breath as "I only had three meltdowns last week instead of one every day."
So he tells people: pick a number before you start. The easiest one is sleep. Read the number, don't rely on the memory. And go slow with sensitive people; he starts a sensitive client at thirty minutes and watches.
- TendonitisThe first song. About a week on the heel.
- General InflammationAlternated with Tendonitis; paired with Allergy in the spring.
- AllergyFive pills the first season. Zero this year.
- SleepShari's. About an hour before bed, not in bed.
Four songs on a device that fits in a pocket. Play each one all the way through.
The VIBE, from Resona Health
$299 $399
A pocket-sized PEMF device with 60 core protocols and 70 expansion protocols built in, including the four above. One button. No app, no subscription, nothing to figure out.
- Fits in a pocket or wears on the included lanyard, and works through clothing
- Rechargeable, about 5 hours per charge at full power
- Safe for people and pets
- Free shipping worldwide
- 30-day money-back guarantee and 1-year warranty
David's first song ran a week. You get 30 days. If nothing changes, send it back for a full refund.
More from Resona Health.
The VIBE is the one David started with. Two more from the same company, both one-button, both wearable, both built around the nervous system a former neurofeedback guy tends to ask about first.
BlueVibe
$349 $499
PEMF and blue light, both pulsed at 40 Hz, in a one-button wearable for the wrist or the back of the neck. Made for focus, memory, and mental clarity. Forty hertz is a brainwave, the very thing David used to watch on the screen.
See the BlueVibe
VaguVibe
$249 $349
A pendant worn over the chest that gently supports the vagus nerve with low-level PEMF all day. No menus, no sessions, nothing to feel. If you want a number to watch, heart rate variability is the one David would tell you to track.
See the VaguVibeWrong question: what frequency. Right question: what changed.
A man who spent years measuring waves. A heel that had ignored everything. One song, played all the way through. Sprints in a field, a hockey game the next day, and eleven and a half miles of Ozarks at 62.
Press play. Let it finish.
The VIBE is an FDA general wellness device. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Individual results vary.
Nothing on this page is medical advice. The experiences described are David Johansson's own, shared as a personal story. Protocol names such as Tendonitis, General Inflammation, Allergy, and Sleep are the names of settings on the device, not claims of treatment for any condition. Talk to your physician about any health concern or medication change, and consult your veterinarian before using any device on a pet.
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