Music For Maternity

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On the Space Coast, music therapy is being used in nursing homes, through hospice, in hospitals — and to help children with autistic spectrum disorders improve their communication skills. Read more here…

This is therapy in a newborn intensive care unit, and research suggests that music may help those born way too soon adapt to life outside the womb. Read more here…

While some members of the community may not be able to communicate in the traditional sense, Harmony Garden Music Therapy allows them, in many ways, to express themselves fully. Read more here...

Music has been used in medicine for thousands of years.Ancient Greek philosophers believed that music could heal both the body and the soul.  Read more here…

A US-born musician with a rising career. And it was an encounter with a traditional Chinese meditation practice that inspired him to expand his music. Falun Gong, the practice that changed Drew’s musical career, is a traditional Chinese meditation and self-improvement discipline. Read more here…

Clinical director Craig Harrison, who is based in Guiseley, said: “Pets often become stressed in strange or unfamiliar environments and cats and dogs have very different trigger points and senses which is why we have separate wards, separate music and separate scents for each area. Read more here…

Harmonies could be healing. New research points to music as the next big helper for many diseases and medical conditions. Whether it’s pop, hip-hop, country, or classical, we all have a favorite song, but now doctors say it could be moving your health along in the right direction, too. Read more here…

Listening to or playing an instrument can lower heart and respiratory rates, Plume said. It also promotes movement. Simply putting a keyboard next to a child’s bed may encourage him or her to sit up when they haven’t in days. Playing the bongos or shaking maracas can ambulate body parts. Read more here…

Music is more than melodies and lyrics. According to the Washington Times, music affects our brain waves, emotions, heart rates and breathing rates. Music may even excite us to a state of joy, or move us to tears — a single song has this power. Read more here…

Dr. Ken Templeton, a neonatal physician at the hospital, said he and fellow physicians feel so strongly about the benefits of music for preemies that they donated some of their own money to help install a music system that plays in each private room. Read more here…