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Title: Music for a therapeutic purpose


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Music for a therapeutic purpose
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Does music therapy actually work?
  • Music has been part of almost every culture and
    the way we produce music is built into our
    genetics. For years even before the advent of
    brain imaging facilities, the health care workers
    always supported music therapy as a support role,
    in strengthening relations, assisting patients to
    express their thoughts in a better way, promote
    the way one can express his emotions, and in
    improving group sessions. Now in this era, with
    advancement in medical technology along with
    several pieces of research to support this idea,
    the benefits of music on mental and physical
    health have been acknowledged widely.
  • In addition to its positive effect on emotions
    and mental wellbeing, music also has been found
    to play an integral role in enhancing physical
    healing. It has been demonstrated that music
    therapy is highly effective in patients
    recovering from stroke and brain injury along
    with patients with Alzheimer's and dementia.
    Singing lyrics help the nondamaged part of their
    brain to speak out their thoughts which
    eventually treats their slurred speech. According
    to one of the studies published in a journal of
    neurology, it was concluded that music can aid
    people in recovering from a stroke with verbal
    memory and maintaining focus. Furthermore,
    depression, low mood, and other mental health
    illnesses are also relieved with music therapy.

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Does music therapy actually work?
  • Though recognizing the role of music in managing
    an illness is not new, recent research is
    exploring how music affects the brain and other
    body systems measurably. The available data
    regarding music therapy helps the practitioners
    now to integrate music with medicine to augment
    healing. Another study conducted at Johns Hopkins
    found out that Parkinsons disease patients
    singing in groups showed improvement in their
    quality of life, clarity, and voice strength. The
    patients with several neurological diseases
    including Parkinsons disease, Alzheimers
    disease, epilepsy, and stroke showed significant
    benefits from using music for therapeutic
    purposes.
  • As one of the renowned physicians, Dr. Alexander
    Pantelyat M.D states
  • Music has been an integral part of the human
    experience as long as humanity has been around.
    Its been intuitively felt to have healing
    properties, but now we are in a position to study
    the mechanisms and optimize music-based
    interventions
  • Music therapy is profoundly effective in the
    treatment of mental health illness too mainly
    depression. Initially, music was used for
    therapeutic purposes to treat post-traumatic
    stress disorder (PTSD) in soldiers of World War
    2. With time, its use was incorporated in the
    treatment of depression too resulting in highly
    positive outcomes.

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How does music therapy work?
  • There is authentic evidence available suggesting
    music therapy for depression and anxiety. In
    patients with depression, music reduces muscle
    tension, decreases anxiety, increases self-esteem
    and motivation along with improving interpersonal
    relationships. In treatment-resistant depression,
    ketamine infusion is used to effectively treat
    the patients. At times, it is not well tolerated
    by the patients. However, including music therapy
    with ketamine infusion, the tolerability of
    ketamine was improved.
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  • These days, music therapy is commonly applied to
    patients going through a cardiac procedure or the
    ones recovering from a heart attack, or those
    trying to survive with heart failure or any other
    cardiovascular disorder. In one of the leading
    hospitals of the USA, Mayo Clinic, the healing
    Enhancement Program has been launched which
    offers music along with massage and relaxation
    therapies particularly for patients having heart
    surgery. Clinical reports suggest music helps
    relieve pain and anxiety.

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How does music therapy work?
  • According to scientists and researchers, music
    can alleviate stress, gives a soothing coping
    mechanism, and impart a feeling of control. One
    of the clinical trials, including music therapy
    to cardiac rehabilitation proved to better
    control blood pressure and improving the mental
    and physical health of each individual as
    compared to cardiac rehabilitation alone.
  • Mozart effect is one of the most highly
    broadcasted mental influences of music. In it,
    researchers observed that musicians have
    remarkable mathematical skills which lead to the
    conclusion that music enhances cognitive
    function, specifically spatial-temporal
    reasoning. Listening to music assists in
    organizing the firing of nerve cells of the
    region of the brain responsible for higher
    functions. Thus, music also acts as a warm-up
    exercise that activates selected brain cells so
    that they can work and process information
    effectively.
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