How To Use Heart Rate Variability To Manage Chronic Fatigue
Many people with Chronic Fatigue conditions like CFS/ME and Long Covid are turning towards technology, like Heart Rate Variability, to help them better manage their health, their nervous systems and support their recoveries.
Heart Rate Variability (HRV) is a biological marker that you can now measure using a watch or an app on your smartphone linked to a wearable device. If you can understand HRV, you potentially have valuable insight into the state of your autonomic nervous system and day to day fluctuating levels of resilience and capacity.
However, when it comes to harnessing the power of HRV in chronic illness generally and chronic fatigue more specifically, there is both an art and a science. Being able to understand and interpret data in a way that is meaningful to the individual is what can make or break the impact of the technology.
