Archive for the ‘Music’ Category

PostHeaderIcon George Kweder Discusses Music Therapy and Neurological Research

musictherapy

Music therapy is the perfect solution for expectant mothers looking for relaxation techniques or developmental and communication treatments for autistic children. The advantages to the form of therapy are really endless. Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon Music therapy fights kids’ pain

Music therapy fights kids’ pain

Music may help children feel less pain and distress during medical treatments. This is what underlines a research led by the University of Alberta and published in Jama Pediatrics. Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon Study finds music can reduce pain for kids in ER

Study finds music can reduce pain for kids in ER

Researchers in Edmonton are now finding that the benefits of music therapy extend to a clinical setting. A new University of Alberta study released Monday adds to evidence that music can reduce children’s perceived sense of pain. Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon Healing Harmonies: Testing the Power of Music to Improve Senior Health

Music – as poets have noted – has the power to wash away the dust of everyday life, and medical experts believe it may also imbue physical and social benefits. Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon Meet the Dallas Doctors Using Music for Therapy

childrensmedicalmusicHQ.jpg

Music can be incredibly therapeutic. Whether it’s keeping us from road rage during rush hour traffic, helping us fall asleep, or uniting us with others as we sing along at a concert, music has a certain unique healing power. Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon Music therapy shows amazing effect in medical patients

Advances in technology let doctors do amazing things to help their patients recover from injuries and illnesses. But more and more, they are finding that a simple tune can have a powerful impact on a person’s health. Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon Music therapist in tune with neurological research

Erin Spring

Neurological music therapy is defined as the therapeutic application of music to cognitive, sensory, and motor function due to neurological disease of the human nervous system. Neurologic music therapy is research based.  Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon Music therapy helped tackle Parkinson’s

Victor Trivett, 88, plays on his blue kazoo. The instrument is used to help regulate the breathing of people with Parkinsons. Trivett was a ballroom dancer and a disk jockey for over thrity years, which ended when he began to manifest the symptoms of Parkinson's disease over a year and a half ago. Now, his caretaker, Trudy Milone, 71, comes with him to music and dance therapy classess at the church. Cayla Nimmo // Photo Editor

“Music gives the central nervous system so much information,” she said. “There is so much going on in the brain, and rhythm helps organize everything.” Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon Fighting addiction with music

Jim Borling is the man who brought her back from emotional suicide.
For more than 20 years as a board certified music therapist he’s helped alcoholics, drug addicts and those suffering from post traumatic stress. Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon Singing may be just as healthy as yoga, scientists say

Jennifer Lopez performs in concert (Atlantic Wire)

Deep, controlled breaths and coming into harmony with those around you. It sounds like a description of some of the basic fundamentals of yoga. But it could also be applied to singing. Read more here…

Maternity Music Categories