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K.1.1. Why this is important. Music therapy is an evidence based clinical intervention, delivered by trained music therapists with the aim to help people achieve their therapeutic goals. It is becoming increasingly used to help people after a stroke to support people’s emotional, cognitive, physical and communication needs.
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Neurologic music therapy utilizes music, rhythm, and beat to help retrain the brain. This is appealing for stroke survivors because rewiring the brain, a process formally known as neuroplasticity, is the essence of recovery. Through neuroplasticity, the brain can make incredible adaptive changes, enlisting healthy areas of the brain to control func...
Neurological music therapy can help stroke survivors recover a wide range of functions including but not limited to movement, speech, and cognition. For example, if an individual is relearning how to walk after a stroke, a therapist may use a musical beat to help pace their steps. Here are some of the major benefits of music therapy for stroke pati...
Since specially-trained music therapists are not always readily available, time with a music therapist is both valuable and often limited. Some survivors are fortunate enough to participate in music therapy once a week, which leaves six days in between sessions where neuroplasticity begins to wane. To help keep the brain stimulated and maximize rec...
Music therapy can serve as an effective form of treatment for stroke survivors because it is a fun and motivating way to practice high repetitions of activities that stimulate the brain. Consistently stimulating the brain encourages adaptive changes through neuroplasticity. Therefore, the more you practice, the better you’ll get. We hope this artic...
The service demonstrates how music therapy as an Allied Health Profession, can contribute to the National Clinical Guidelines for Stroke Recommendations (2016) suggesting 45 minutes every day of ‘each appropriate therapy’, through joint-working and goal-setting (p. xiv).
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Mar 22, 2024 · Research being conducted has found that listening to music, specifically, holds some power when used as a rehabilitation therapy for those who have experienced stroke. So, letting the melodies take hold isn’t simply for fun anymore.
- Angelica Bottaro
May 4, 2022 · Studies of this phenomenon and of how music affects the brain have led to the development of a variety of music-supported therapies, such as melodic intonation therapy, which trains stroke survivors to communicate rhythmically to build stronger connections between brain regions.
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Nov 7, 2023 · Neurologic music therapy (NMT), a specially designed intervention targeting movement, balance, and cognitive functioning, improves depressive symptoms and increases brain-derived neurotrophic...
