Music Therapy
Music therapy is the use of music to improve or maintain ones physical, mental, social, and emotional health. It is used in many different settings, ranging from hospitals to nursing homes to schools to psychiatric hospitals. As a well person, it may be possible to create your own music therapy at home to help you relax and/or to sleep better.
Music therapy is provided by professional music therapists. They work with adults as well as with children. Music therapy can help improve memory, reduce stress, provide an outlet for feelings, and calm the mind and body. There is research that supports music as a therapy and as a stress reducer. It has been used in operating rooms to improve the outcome of surgery, with patients after surgery to reduce pain and help in pain management, with children to help them communicate better and to help teach them to express themselves better, and with Alzheimer’s patients to aid in their treatment. Music therapy is also used to motivate patients to engage in physical rehabilitation.
Music therapy has been shown to change the patient’s brainwaves, breathing, heart rate and mental alertness and focus. It is commonly used in adults and children with various disabilities. This therapy may consist of the patient listening to music, composing music, writing lyrics to music, adapting music to the individual, dancing, and singing to the music. Sometimes the composing is done by the music therapist, while other times it is done by the patient. With music therapy, it is not necessary for the patient to be musically inclined, as there are many modalities of music therapy that can be used. The therapist tailors the therapy to each individual patient’s needs. This therapy is recognized by and many times reimbursed by insurance companies.
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