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A cancer diagnosis can cause fear and uncertainty for both the person who receives the news, as well as their loved ones. However, efforts that use music to assist cancer patients are starting to highlight the idea that music can be a powerful supplement to regular treatment regimens. Read more here…

Music therapy is a technique of complementary medicine that uses music prescribed in a skilled manner by trained therapists. Programs are designed to help patients overcome physical, emotional, intellectual, and social challenges. Applications range from improving the well-being of geriatric patients in nursing homes to lowering the stress level and pain of women in labor. Music therapy is used in many settings, including schools, rehabilitation centers, hospitals, hospices, nursing homes, community centers, and sometimes even in the home. Read more here…

Music is considered to be a harmonic combination of sound and silence that is found in a certain pattern. There is basically a structure in all forms of music which depends on the scale and type of music that produces these notes with a scale and rhythm. And in this music, the listener finds its meaning that gives life to music and thus helps in the healing process.  Read more here…

“The music and sounds can evoke different emotions in the student,” Corey Costanzo says. “It is interesting what one sound can do to one person, and another can have a completely different experience. It plays on emotions and anxieties that are unique to each person.”  Read more here…

After 35 years as a music therapist, Anci Sandell can now present research findings showing that the therapy methods she uses, increases quality of life for people who are being treated for severe medical or psychosocial conditions.  Read more here…

Though Philadelphia Private Gym’s new sound therapy equipment looks as simple as a padded cot with a blanket and a CD player, it is much more complex than that. The vibroacoustic lounge features a zero gravity bed that vibrates in sync with music to relieve stress. Read more here…

A charity is helping children cope with the death of a parent and express grief through writing and playing songs. Winston’s Wish, a charity for bereaved children based in Cheltenham, launched an initiative in December last year to help boys aged 11 to 13 to deal, through music, with the death of a parent. “It’s about taking the pressure off being too verbal about their loss,” says Brett Riches, a musician and youth worker who runs the group. “They might want to use music instead when they’re feeling sad or need a boost.” Read more here….

Music Therapist Karen Nisenson will discuss the powerful and positive impact music can have on the developing brain, and how exposure to music enhances cognitive functions that are seemingly unrelated to notes, chords, and rhythm. Read more here…..

For most people, music is entertainment. Not for Irish folk singer Tommy Sands. For Sands music is a tool, a way to create dialogue, challenge perceptions and to heal.Sands has been using his songs to promote peace and foster healing for the past 40 years. While the singer from County Down, Northern Ireland, has worked with a host of legendary musicians in the past, his next collaborators will be the fine and talented students from Ipswich High School.  Read more here…

You’ve probably heard it said at least once: “Music soothes the soul.” These couldn’t be truer words for the music therapists of the Canadian Association for Music. Each and every day, they watch power of music work for some of the sickest kids in the country. For the families they help, the music is a gift that brings them healing, or helps their children connect with the world around them. For the therapists, the work itself is the reward. Read more here….