Music For Maternity

Music got him talking again. Patients at the Oregon Stroke Center gather each week to sing. New research suggests singing or playing music, maybe even just hearing it, helps rewire the brain after a stroke. Read more here…

“Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient for whatever success I’ve had,” Dalio, founder of US$130-billion hedge fund firm Bridgewater Associates, said in an interview at Georgetown in October. Read more here…

Mather Hospital’s Transitional Care Unit recently implemented a music therapy program in an effort to relax patients and improve pain management. Read more here…

Some money managers who meditate say they believe it helps them to deal with information overload, not just in the sense of remaining calm when events are frantic but also in being able to recognize the most significant bits of data from among the maelstrom. Read more here…

A first of its kind University of Pennsylvania study found that the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique can help improve vitality and other quality-of-life factors in patients with the HIV virus. Read more here…

Music therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship, according to the American Music Therapy Association. Read more here…

A professor and her class at the University of Iowa have brought music-therapy sessions to people all over the area this semester, ranging all the way from pre-schoolers to dementia patients. Read more here…

Mastering these basic yoga poses will help you strengthen and stretch your muscles, improve your posture, and prevent workout injuries. Read more here…

Recent research has found that meditation can lower blood pressure and help patients with chronic illness cope with pain and depression. In a study published last year, meditation sharply reduced the risk of heart attack or stroke among a group of African-Americans with heart disease. Read more here…

Music therapists worked with the mothers of 272 premature babies for several sessions over two weeks using either two instruments, singing or no music. Playing live music to a prematurely born baby can slow its heartbeat and make the child breathe more easily, according to a new study. Read more here…