How Music Therapy Helps Relieve Arthritis Pain

When 73-year-old Shirley Livingston was recuperating from a knee replacement at the Cleveland Clinic’s Euclid Hospital in January 2015, a music therapist came to her room and played the flute for 30 minutes each day. Livingston, of Lake County, Ohio, is convinced that the music significantly helped soothe her pain. “There’s no doubt in my mind” that it was the music and not medication, Livingston says, because she refused to take anything stronger than aspirin. Read more here…