Heart Rate
Measuring your Heart Rate
The Helo has a setting that allows you to determine how often the Helo performs measurements. This can be from 30 minutes upwards. Setting at 30 minute regular intervals in the early days helps to learn about yourself and build a trend profile as you go about your daily life.
To record a measurement you don't need to do anything. At the allotted time the Helo will fire up the sensor on the back of the device (the side against the skin) and begin to take measurements.
The App on your smartphone will automatically notify you that readings have been taken. These are filed into the application to see immediately or later on. Successive measurements are filed so building up your personal profile.
Getting to know your body
This is the first time that health measuring technology of this sophistication has been available to each and every one of us. Usable, efficient, and affordable, it provides us with unprecedented insight into how our body is doing.
It is hard to "imagine" how this can change your attitude to health and wellness, but once you start to have information about how your body is coping, you somehow want to do better... to improve your statistics and take better care of yourself.
The graph (to the right / or below) is available straight from the smartphone App. and as time passes you can see not only what happened today but trends over the weeks and the months.
Are these results useful to my Doctor?
The medical profession is notoriously slow to adopt new ideas. This will be no different. It also depends on the doctor, whether they perceive this as just a gadget or the future...
There is little doubt that we are at the beginning of a completely new "health era", one that is at the individual, personal level. What works for each of us is as unique as we are.
Knowing your numbers
A bit of cliche and a strap line for the government's "Health Campaign" of yesteryear... however there is some truth in it. When we go to the doctors, or something happens and we have our heart rate and blood pressure taken, these are one off instances... unless they are put into perspective with your normal daily life they are just a single measurement at a point in time.
The power of Helo is the constant and regular measurement providing you with potentially 48 snapshots each and every day... with no effort. This is invaluable data. Even if it was 10 - 20% out... it enables you to see differences and trends.