A Review of Touchpoints To Tackle Stress, PTSD & Autism

Tackle Stress, ADHD Sleeplessness, Autism, and more with Touchpoints

What Are TouchPoints?

The TouchPoint Solution aka “Touchpoints”  is really a novel tech gadget that claims to deal with everything from stress to autism.

Created by Neuropsychologist Dr. Amy Serin and executive and child advocate Vicki Mayo these little gadgets you wear on both wrists with (not included purchased separately) wristbands.

There are clips to let you also put them in your  pockets, socks, or bra straps.

When charged up with the dual-pronged USB cord and activated and using an APP, the TouchPoint devices are two separate units that vibrate slightly and supposedly help you to keep your focus, reduce cravings, improve performance, manage anger, reduce sensory overload, and enable better sleep.

In other words, they help you reduce stress and have a calmer life!

Just a Bit of “Tech Speak”

Let’s get the tech speak out of the way first.

The wrist units use something called “BLAST” (bi-lateral alternating stimulation -tactile).

It’s a neuroscientific approach (read more about this) that supposedly works in about 30 seconds, using transferring alternating vibrations to alter the body’s Fight, Flight or Freeze (F3) response to stress and anxiety and to restore homeostatic nervous system functioning.

This allows you to think more clearly and experience calm.

Your brain is the driver of the functions in your body. It controls your nervous system and maintains homeostasis by sending electrochemical signals throughout the body, coordinating and executing both the voluntary and involuntary processes that maintain homeostasis.

For those who don’t know the term homeostasis it is widely defined as: “a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group”  In this case, to put it a bit more simply, this keeps your body functions in harmony/balance. 

Testing Touchpoints

I first tried the “Touchpoints” standing up at an exhibitors table, merely holding them in my hands at a blogger event.

To be honest, I was very stressed out about a number of things. I held the two units in my hand for about a minute.

Perhaps it was the power of suggestion, but I did feel a bit calmer and focused.

So I wanted to try these at home.