Music For Maternity

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Those are the most powerful days for me as a therapist, when I go in to see a patient and they’re really down, and then when the music starts you just see that spark,” Nelson says. Read more here…

Premature infants — who, if in utero, could be legally aborted — are the recipients of a new music therapy designed to engage their sense of hearing at a time when they are so fragile that they often cannot even be held or caressed by their parents. A recent report from the Associated Press suggests that, like all other humans, preemies can be soothed by gentle music, especially when they are serenaded live in their hospital rooms. Read more here…

“What music therapy can uniquely provide is that passive listening experience that just encourages relaxation for the patient, encourages participation by the family,” Klinger said after a recent session in Augustin’s hospital room. Read more here…

Music helps us survive the anxiety, anticipation, and fear that in-between times hold. In Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book, young Nobody Owens finds sanctuary in an abandoned graveyard/nature reserve, where he comes to learn that his guardian, Silas, is a member of the Honour Guard, those who guard the borders of things. Read more here…

Sarah Rose Black, a music therapy intern at Princess Margaret Hospital, believes her sessions have given Reid a venue to express herself through music, whether playing a guitar or singing. Read more here…

New research suggests that for some patients, using headphones to listen to their favorite types of music could lower anxiety and reduce their need for sedatives. Read more here…

Music can help soothe the fear and anxiety of critically ill patients who have been placed on ventilators, reducing both their stress and their need for sedatives, according to a new study. Read more here…

Kuehne works his magic through music. He talks to the patient or, rather, lets his lyre talk to the patient. Then the patient, almost magically, opens his heart to cooperate with his physicians. “Music has the capacity to open up the heart,” says Kuehne, a music therapist and educator from Germany. He works with individuals and groups to “awaken soul capacities for transformation through music.” Guided by the tenets of Rudolf Steiner, philosopher and founder of anthroposophy, Kuehne has touched thousands with his musical insights. Read more here…

Music appears to ease anxiety of intensive care unit patients who have been placed on ventilators and also reduce the need for intravenous sedative and analgesic medications, says study. Read more here…

Among intensive care unit patients receiving acute ventilatory support for respiratory failure, use of patient-preferred music resulted in greater reduction in anxiety and sedation frequency and intensity compared with usual care, according to a study published online by JAMA. Read more here…