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Today, music therapy is used by health care professionals to promote healing and enhance quality of life for their patients. Music therapy may be used to encourage emotional expression, promote social interaction, relieve symptoms, and for other purposes. Read more here…

Music can spark compelling outcomes in the late stages of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, according to the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America. Because rhythmic responses are influenced by a part of the brain that responds directly to auditory cues and requires little cognitive functioning, music has the power to stimulate positive interactions and manage mood changes. Read more here…

As life’s events unfold, the inevitable aches and pains associated with injury, illness, and age eventually set in and affect our quality of life. Experiencing pain is expected, but living with pain is not necessary and in most cases physical therapy can significantly reduce or relieve pain. Read more here…

“One of the most natural things in the world is to sing to your baby and when you have this birth that’s interrupted by prematurity and hospitalization, it’s a very unnatural process and so what you want to do is normalize it,” pediatric nurse Ann-Marie Dassler told WCBS 880 reporter Marla Diamond. Read more here…

Parker, who recently sang the national anthem at on ROTC ball on the OU Athens campus, has always written songs as an outlet to express himself but didn’t realize how beneficial his songwriting was until returning from his enlistment. Read more here…

In the annals of Ugandan music, there are a few names you can talk about in terms of creating lyrics that have influenced both the home base and beyond borders. Music that appeals to all age groups, classes and even the president (President Museveni is said to particularly love Basiima Ogenze).  Read more here…

When classical guitarist Karen Schoenhals first learned about how the Trauma Resolution Center of Miami was helping people overcome post-traumatic stress disorder, she thought she would be the one whom the center couldn’t help. Read more here…

It was an especially difficult December night in 2011 for then 11-year-old Braydon Hutchison. The young leukemia patient, quarantined at Seattle Children’s Hospital, couldn’t stop vomiting. It continued into the next day. But for two brief hours, his nausea magically subsided, thanks in large part to some musician he’d never met. Read more here…

Laura Berryhill, also from Mount Shasta, has a master’s degree in music history from the University of Oregon, where she focused on early 17th-century Italian sacred music. As a vocalist she works in a variety of musical styles, from early European music, to folk music of the Celtic cultures, to new age and jazz. Read more here…

Clearing your mind through meditation is one of the most peaceful ways you can find to just relieve all the tension you have in your body. Read more here…