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The practice of using music to heal started during WWI. Nurses used music at Veterans Hospitals to help comfort patients with traumatic war injuries. Today it’s used to both help with the healing of serious illness and to provide a simple distraction. Read more here…

To keep a rhythm, the brain has to do a lot of work and music therapy helps improve the brain process,” said Morris Brown, a 51-year-old Shortts Lake resident who incurred a stroke in July 2011. Read more here…

Learning music for people like Parks was an important step in dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and physical injury. Working with veterans at the conservancy, Dr. Noelle Berger, counseling psychologist at the VA Medical Center found that music helped veterans with traumatic brain injury (TBI) to improve their memory and attention, and help them feel more relaxed. Read more here…

The use of singing bowls is one of the current sound therapy modalities gaining ground. Traditional healers in China, Japan, Tibet, Nepal and India have used crystal bowls for centuries. Most religious or spiritual ceremonies around the world also incorporate some form of singing, chanting, bells and metal or crystal bowls. Read more here…

Music Is Therapy for Lung Transplant Patients. Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports: The harmonica turns out to be the perfect instrument for strengthening the lungs after transplant. Larry Rawdon:  When you’re playing a song you might have to keep inhaling longer than you’d really like to, and likewise you might be exhaling longer than you might really want to, but for the sake of the song you’ll do it. Read more here…

The late 18th century saw publication of the first music therapy scientific article, entitled “Music Physically Considered,” and references to the medicinal value of music in two medical dissertations, by Edwin Atlee, in 1804, and Samuel Mathews, in 1806. Read more here…

Listening to any type of music in general is known for its potential to lower blood pressure, help one relax, and reduce anxiety. Dr. Kevin Labar of Duke University found that classical music releases dopamine and inhibits the release of stress hormones, which produces a calming effect for the listener. Read more here…

After his wife suffered a leg injury and later developed dementia, a Dade County man decides to use the power of music to help her heal. Carl Singer and his wife Kay have been holding home concerts for just over a year now, and it has helped his wife feel alive again. Read more here…

Playing a musical instrument can be fun, but for people with lung problems it can also offer a health benefit. Music has always been a huge part of Larry Rawdon’s life. Read more here…

Through more tests, the doctors had found that he wasn’t keeping things in his working memory long enough for them to be stored in his short-term memory. Although he was being helped to restore his memory skills, he found that studying the science and psychology of music and thinking himself was helping. Read more here…