Music For Maternity

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Silence in music therapy, as in life, can take on many qualities. It can be oppressive or mutual, uncomfortable or soothing. I often find in music therapy with verbal adults that when a long musical improvisation ends it is very difficult to come straight back ‘into words’. Here an instinctive shared silence – sometimes of as long as a minute, can act as a de-compression chamber allowing us time to return from the intimacy of spontaneous shared music-making back into the realm of words and interpretation. Read more here…

The researchers studied 373 patients in several Minneapolis-St Paul-area hospital ICUs. A third received music therapy, with a therapist compiling a playlist of each patient’s favourite recordings to continuously loop on a bedside CD player. A third of the patients were offered noise-cancelling headphones to put on whenever they wished. The final third, the control group, received standard care. 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. Many insurers won’t pay for music therapy because of doubts that it results in any lasting medical improvement. Some doctors say the music works best at relieving babies’ stress and helping parents bond with infants too sick to go home. Read more here…

Music therapy has been used for years in schools, hospitals and other settings. A music therapist works either in groups or one-on-one with individuals to achieve goals, whether that means helping them rehab from an accident or assisting in developing motor skills in a person with a developmental disability. Read more here…

A brain-imaging study done at Stanford University used classical music by a somewhat obscure 18th-century English composer named William Boyce to measure how 17 people in their late teens and 20s responded. All were right-handed (the rarer lefty brain may have a different landscape) and had little or no musical training and no knowledge of Boyce’s work. Read more here….

Dr. Hari Haran says his music is purely classical on traditional instruments which will not disturb the balance and equilibrium of your mind, and is very effective for healing ailments like blood pressure, nervous disorder, body pain, migraine, rheumatics, stress, anger, depression, heart ailments, sleepless-ness, and autism. Read more here…

To many Soldiers, the acronym SOAR represents Special Operations Aviation Regiment. For Soldiers in the Wounded Transition Battalion it is the Sounds of Acoustic Recovery music program. Read more here…

San Francisco, CA — (SBWIRE) — 05/30/2013 — The Ohio State University medical study focused on patients hospitalized in intensive care units on mechanical ventilators. Another music therapy study is being done at St. Louis University Cancer Center for patients with cancer who are receiving chemotherapy treatments, radiation therapy, and are recovering from surgery. Read more here…

A brain-imaging study done at Stanford University used classical music by a somewhat obscure 18th-century English composer named William Boyce to measure how 17 people in their late teens and 20s responded. All were right-handed (the rarer lefty brain may have a different landscape) and had little or no musical training and no knowledge of Boyce’s work. Read more here…

“Many NICUs are noisy, or people put on random lullabies that are recorded. What we’re saying is, it’s not just any old lullaby that’s recorded, it’s the power of the parent’s voice synchronized therapeutically . . . and the other two sounds that can have a therapeutic benefit.” Read more here…