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Music can also help patients who have difficulties in speech after having suffered strokes, he said, adding: “Music can also help unlock memories”. Giving the example of German composer Ludwig van Beethoven, Kogan said the master pianist, despite suffering from deafness at a very young age, managed to create some of his best pieces because of the healing power of music. Read more here…

Music helps alleviate feelings of loneliness and stress especially in hospitals. It also affects their want for social interaction,” adds Poonam. Music has healing properties and helps greatly in balancing the hormones thereby enhancing the mood. It helps in lowering blood pressure, boosting immunity and also eases muscle tension. Read more here…

Music therapy cannot be practiced as a pain reducer exclusively, but it can work if it is done alongside scientific treatment,” said Dr Venkatesh Neugi, an anaesthetist and a leading figure in pain therapy in Goa. Dr Neugi said that for patients admitted in ICU, music therapy is one of the remedies when they are on life support system. Read more here…

Music can also help patients who have difficulties in speech after having suffered strokes, he said, adding: “Music can also help unlock memories”. Music has unparalleled capacity to reduce pain and anxiety. Read more here…

Diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome when she was 4, Summer struggles with the socialization skills that come naturally to others. Her mother, Christie Wilkinson, said music has been the great equalizer for her daughter, the place she can go to shut down the exaggerated noises of the outside world inside her head. Read more here…

Music therapy is different from music education and entertainment as it focuses on health, functioning and wellbeing, and music therapists work with people of any age and ability, culture or background. The use of music in healing has had a long history, but music therapy as a profession began to develop formally in USA in the 1950s to help war veterans suffering from physical and emotional problems. Read more here…

Music is what I’ve always done,” he said. “It just naturally follows that music would be in times of joy, in times of grief, in times of whatever. Music is a way of expression. Read more here…

A music-based training programme that challenges both the body and the mind may improve brain function and mood among seniors, suggests a new study from Switzerland. It is practised worldwide, particularly in the fields of music, theatre, dance and therapy, according to Hars.  Read more here…

In 2006, a US study purported that music can alleviate depression by up to 25%. More recent studies have given weight to theories that music can boost the immune system, improve cognitive functioning, reduce stress and pain, alter perception and aid in treatment for a range of mental and physical illnesses. Read more here…

When people are really depressed, they will play music that makes them sadder and can impede that feeling,” he said. “If the music is used beneficially, it can help a person process and work through the experience. Read more here…