Music Therapy
Music therapy helps patients with sickle cell disease cope with pain
According to one patient undergoing treatment for sickle cell disease at University Hospitals Connor Whole Health, pain associated with the disease “feels like someone’s constantly stabbing you, but you’re not dying.”
Q&A: Music may be ‘useful, effective and harmless’ pain management strategy
Growing evidence suggests that music therapy can be an effective method for relieving pain, according to researchers.
Music therapy reduces depression, menopausal symptoms
Women who participated in music therapy had lower levels of depression and reduced menopausal symptoms compared with those who did not, according to findings in Menopause.
Music: The universal language
As the title of this commentary states, music is considered the universal language. The reason is that it exists in every society, with and without words.
Music therapy, phone call from physician may relieve anxiety in patients undergoing IVF
As physicians attempt to mitigate anxiety in patients undergoing IVF, new research suggests that music therapy and personalized phone calls may relieve some distress.
Music therapy may improve anxiety, chest pain after MI
Patients with hypertension and early postinfarction angina who underwent daily music therapy combined with the usual care reported less anxiety and chest pain than similar patients who received the usual care alone.
Nonpharmacological dementia interventions may be more effective in reducing aggression, agitation
Nonpharmacologic interventions, including massage and touch therapy, may be more effective than pharmacologic methods in reducing aggression and agitation in adults with dementia, according to findings published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.