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Music has been around for thousands of years. Most individuals listen to music in order to distract and destress themselves. Studies have shown that music can be a form of medicine used in a variety of ways. Research in music therapy supports its effectiveness in a wide variety of healthcare and educational settings. Music therapy interventions can be designed to promote wellness, manage stress, alleviate pain, express feelings, enhance memory, improve communication, and promote physical rehabilitation.
Today, music therapy is most commonly used for people undergoing a cardiac procedure and for those recovering from a heart attack or learning to cope with heart failure or other cardiovascular condition. In a trial conducted, it had been discovered that adding music therapy to a standard cardiac rehabilitation led to a better control of blood pressure, along with better general and mental health, than rehab alone. Music therapy also helps with sleep deprivation, reduces stress, and melts away anxiety.
There is an undergoing study revolved around whether sound vibrations absorbed through the body can help ease the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, fibromyalgia, and depression. The goal of this work is to develop "dosable" and "prescribable" music therapy and music as medicine protocols that serve specific neuerologic functions and attend to deficits that may result from many of these neurologically based conditions.
If you are a medical student who happens to have a passion for music, you may find yourself looking into music therapy as a career. Who knows you may find out how music can help in other ways. Or if you make music and are studying medicine maybe you can create the perfect sounds in order to relieve stress, better the heart, or help the mind.
Credits
- http://www.apa.org/monitor/2013/11/music.aspx
- http://www.musictherapy.org/
- https://hms.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/assets/Sites/Longwood_Seminars/LongwoodSeminarMusicReadingPack.pdf
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