Posts Tagged ‘music’
Music can promote healing and ease stress

Music therapy also is used to help patients with balance and coordination. A program designed to train older adults to walk and perform various movements in time to music helped improve their gait and balance when compared to their peers. Read more here…
Thinking Out Loud: How music can heal

Music as an assistive therapy can guide healing from past traumas, help people be more productive or just relax. Music is a healing force in and of itself. Read more here…
Healing Through Sacred Sound and Music: Part 1

Music or rhythmic chanting can have a healing affect on the body. The word ‘music’ from the Greek ‘mousike’ – by way of the Latin ‘musica’ – is formed from the Greek root ‘mousa’, the ancient Egyptian root ‘muse’ and Celtic suffix ‘ike’. Read more here…
Swedish music therapy method for aged strikes chord in nursing homes

The Bunne method helps many elderly people stay healthy physically and mentally and avoid increases in the level of required nursing care, according to Gustav Strandell, the president of Maihama Club. The method is said to improve a person’s brain function, memory and voicing capacity. Read more here…
Ann Arbor therapist uses music with patients

Music is pervasive, offering structure in times of celebration as well as those of reflection and sorrow, said Debra Burns, an associate professor of music therapy at Purdue University’s music and arts technology department. Music does not prolong life. But it appears that music therapists can provide what a nurse or doctor rushing to complete rounds cannot: Time to reflect. To calm. Read more here…
Stressed, depressed Chinese embrace therapy with ‘less stigma’: music

Therapists employ the qualities of music such as sound, rhythm and harmony to treat a range of physical and emotional conditions from depression and anxiety to dementia and autism. Read more here…
Music therapy helping patients with lung problems
Playing a musical instrument can be fun, but for people with lung problems it can also offer a health benefit. One man convinced his doctor to make his favorite pastime a form of therapy. Read more here…
MUSICIANS BRING HEALING POWER TO HOSPITAL FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Music can be very inspiring and uplifting and it can give people hope at times when they’re infirm or confined to bed and suffering. Music is truly the pathway to the soul … if there is a heaven then I was given a taste of its music. Read more here…
Healing power of music lifting the spirits of Tri-State cancer patients
Experts say music therapy can enhance quality of life. It can serve as a “mega vitamin” for the brain, and influence and improve motor function. Music makes your spirit come to the surface and be prepared to be healed,” said Tew. “There is a great need for healing in the Barrett Cancer Center. Read more here…
How and why music affects our mind
Music helps alleviate feelings of loneliness and stress especially in hospitals. It also affects their want for social interaction,” adds Poonam. Read more here…