The four pieces, and what we do not claim
The first question we are asked is whether this is serious. It is a fair one. Here is what to judge by, in the order it can be checked.
The model is published
In Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, a peer-reviewed journal indexed in PubMed. DOI 10.1093/ecam/nel060.
The lineage is dated
Work begun in the mid-1980s by Igor Grakov, physician and mathematician; the Mimex company founded in 1989, the system named Strannik by the late 1990s and updated every year since 1997. A second component was developed between 2001 and 2005 from the work on Emotional Dynamics of Dr Jean-Pierre Garitte and Dr Jimmy Eerebout. The authors publish their archive in facsimile: 43 dated items.
The results converge
82 % in 2001-2002 on 370 people, by the Lesgaft institute; 85 % in 2016 on 20; 87 % in 2016 on 50, in South Africa. Three studies, fifteen years apart: the reading agrees with the diagnoses already known for those people.
And gains have been measured
Twenty volunteers, checked five times across their twenty sessions, by electroencephalography and cardiovascular testing: +33.7 % contraction speed, +31.6 % alpha rhythm, +30.4 % relaxation speed, all at p < 0.001. Lesgaft institute report, 2001-2002.
What we claim
What we do not claim
What a name holds
“Странник” means the traveller, the one who seeks the truth. PPS stands for Physio-Psycho Scanner.
A dated origin, named authors, an unbroken line: that is what separates a technology from a method that appeared last year.
Check the one thing that needs no permission
The test asks nothing of the person. That you can see for yourself in fifteen minutes, with no account.