Music For Maternity

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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…

Justin Lopez, aka DJ Ju5tin, has trouble speaking and reading. But the 8-year-old has found a way to express himself: blending beats at his mixing board. The Bethlehem boy was born with a rare form of muscular dystrophy known as glycogen storage disease. It affects his liver, muscle strength and speech. But the upcoming DJ has found his voice through music. Read more here…

Music Therapy Week (MTW) is a week of campaigning to help raise awareness of how music therapy can improve the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in our communities across the UK.  Music therapy can help people of any age who find it difficult to communicate verbally, due to a physical or cognitive disability, emotional distress or mental illness. 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. When King Saul was having bad dreams, young David would play the lyre for him and this would calm the tormented king. Read more here…

Ghost frontman Masaki Batoh’s latest endeavor finds him making music from brain waves in order to heal people from the trauma of the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011. On Brain Pulse Music, he combines an experimental bio-electric procedure with traditional Japanese instrumentation to create alien zen ambience and Harry Partch-meets-Harry Bertoia sonic sculptures. Read more here…

“We have seen how music can make a breaking point into a turning point. An important part of recovery is improving peoples’ image of themselves,” she said.” They need to know that they have value as an individual, and that they have a purpose. Read more here…

“Music, and the thing we do with an orchestra, can be a really cathartic experience,” Moody said. “The Mahler Fifth does it as well as any piece. Mahler was a composer who spent more of his thinking time than probably any other composer pondering the largest issues of life, death, the afterlife, resurrection, the pain involved, the mourning involved and also the healing involved.” Read more here…

A couple of years ago, 18-year-old Ram couldn’t communicate and was even incapable of making eye contact. Now, after many sessions of Carnatic music therapy, this boy with autism shows expressions on his face and is able to speak a little. Fifteen-year-old Tejas has got over her stammer, while 50-year-old Lalitha has gone back to her cheerful self after undergoing depression following menopause. Read more here…

Music touches the human soul across all illusionary boundaries of time, space and language. As we listen to music, there is a phenomenon known as entrainment occurring, in which our hearts involuntarily synchronize their beat to the rhythm supplied by external stimuli. Read more here…

While music is magic therapy for us all, it “can make the difference between withdrawal and awareness, isolation and interaction” for those with special needs according to Barbara Crow, past President of the National Association for Music Therapy. Read more here…