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- Therapists say that music therapy can help terminally ill patients decrease anxiety, depression, and pain; improve the ability to sleep; and enhance overall quality of life. It helps reduce the need for medication for women during childbirth, and it distracts dental patients from the pain of a root canal.
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Jul 11, 2023 · Music has been used as an effective therapeutic tool for helping patients to improve, restore, or maintain health. 15,16 Music has been shown to have positive effects on physical (ie, pain and fatigue) as well as psychological (ie, mood and quality of life) outcomes during cancer treatment. 11,12,17 Given that patients receiving chemotherapy ...
“Music and movement therapy”, a breast cancer music therapy supportive group is a therapeutic program for women after breast surgery, lymph nodes dissection, lymphoedema, based on music and movement.
Jan 5, 2012 · The use of music therapy in the integrative treatment of cancer patients is a therapeutic option whose salutogenetic potential is demonstrated in many case studies such as those presented here. Study results, however, did not draw a conclusive picture of the overall effect of music therapy.
Jul 25, 2017 · In a study of 83 children (aged 4–7 years) undergoing cancer treatment, music therapy was shown to have positive effects on coping-related behaviors including positive facial affect, active engagement, and initiation.
- Music Therapy
- What It Is
- What Practitioners Say It Does
- Beliefs on Which It Is Based
- Research Evidence to Date
- What It Can Do For You
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Listen to a few bars of a song on the radio, and our immediate surroundings melt away, the melody carrying us back to where we heard it first. We link music to the milestones of life, both joyous and sorrowful. Sports arenas blast pounding rock music to arouse crowds. Colleges have fight songs for the same end. Business offices, factories, and reta...
Music therapy is the use of music to encourage healing and promote a general sense of well-being. Patients listen to or perform music under the guidance of a professionally trained and certified music therapist. Music therapists perform, listen to music with patients, analyze their lyrics, write songs, and join in music improvisation. Patients can ...
Music therapy has several purposes. It can alleviate pain and ease the psychological discomfort associated with many medical conditions. It helps improve physical and mental functioning among people with neurologic or developmental disorders. Therapists say that music therapy can help terminally ill patients decrease anxiety, depression, and pain; ...
There is no single theory to explain how music therapy works in various clinical situations. Instead clinical therapists offer hypotheses for different settings. In addition, despite substantial research, the mechanisms by which it works and precisely how the brain receives music and produces positive effects are not well understood. In reducing pa...
Music therapy has been subjected to a great deal of research during the past three decades, and several professional journals are devoted to music therapy. Although many published articles consist of descriptions and anecdotal evidence, larger, more organized studies have also been conducted. These studies indicate that music therapy can be an effe...
Music therapy is a documented, effective complementary therapy for many conditions and problems. It is not a curative treatment, nor is it promoted as a cure for serious diseases, as are some other complementary therapies. As do the best of complementary treatments, however, it can improve well-being and quality of life, reduce symptoms, and enhanc...
The World Federation of Music Therapy is an international organization bringing together music therapy associations and individuals (musictherapyworld.de). Other organizations include the European Music Therapy Confederation (emtc-eu.com); the Canadian Association for Music Therapy (musictherapy.ca/en); Voices, a world forum for music therapy (voic...
Jun 1, 2019 · Music-based interventions (MBIs) can be subdivided in Music Therapy (MT) and Music Medicine (MM). MBIs have positive effects on cancer patients’ anxiety, depression, pain, life quality of life. MT interventions are particularly effective on anxiety.
Nov 22, 2023 · Music therapy has been used to mitigate symptoms and address psychosocial needs in people with cancer as an adjunct to the primary treatment. Providing patients access to sources of aesthetic support, like a deeply personal choice of musical playlist, may help cognitive recovery and elevate mood in patients undergoing treatment or recovery.
