Music For Maternity

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As 85-year-old Mary O’Kane strained at the bell ropes in the steeple of historic Arlington Street Church, she imagined the sounds spreading a healing across her city – and the land. Read more here…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

The researchers concluded that live music, played or sung, helped to slow infants’ heartbeats, calm their breathing, improve sucking behaviors important for feeding, aid sleep and promote states of quiet alertness. Read more here…

Balance gives us stability, fulfilment, peace, happiness and finally achievement. In this series we will be teaching you about balance and balancing postures and its effects and benefits in your day to day life. Read more here…