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Music Therapy and Military Populations

March 14, 2019 - 10:27 PM The profession of music therapy is rooted in service to America’s service members and veterans. As a professional organization representing 6,000+ music therapists nationwide and in some thirty countries around the world, AMTA has a tradition and steadfast commitment to providing service members access to high quality music therapy services and research. This commitment spans all phases of military service. In 1945, the U.S. War Department issued Technical Bulletin 187 detailing a program on the use of music for reconditioning among service members convalescing in Army hospitals. This program demonstrated how music could be incorporated in multiple therapeutic services including......

The Benefits of Playing Music Help Your Brain More Than Any Other Activity

February 14, 2019 - 09:50 PM Brain training is big business. Companies like BrainHQ, Luminosity, and Cogmed are part of a multimillion-dollar business that is expected to surpass $3 billion by 2020. But does what they offer actually benefit your brain? Researchers don't believe so. In fact, the University of Illinois determined that there's little or no evidence that these games improve anything more than the specific tasks being trained. Luminosity was even fined $2 million for false claims. So, if these brain games don't work, then what will keep your brain sharp? The answer? Learning to play a musical instrument. Why Being a Musician Is Good for Your Brain Science has shown that musical......

How and Why Music Therapy Promotes Health How and Why Is Music A Good Tool For Health?

February 06, 2019 - 08:00 AM By Elizabeth Scott, MS Listening to music can be a quick route to getting yourself into a better mood, but it's becoming increasingly clear that there's much more to the benefits of music than just a quick boost for your outlook. Research has shown that music has a profound effect on your body and psyche. In fact, there’s a growing field of healthcare known as music therapy, which uses music to heal. Those who practice music therapy are finding a benefit in using music to help cancer patients, children with ADD, and others, and even hospitals are beginning to use music and music therapy to help with pain management, to help ward off depression, to promote movement, to calm......

Music For A Better Mood

January 30, 2019 - 08:00 AM Have you ever been in the worst mood but perked up instantly when you heard your favourite song? Perhaps your day had been going horrifically until you heard that song that always makes you smile. For me, it’s “All Of Me’by John Legend…What is yours? Before we get further into the topic of music to ease the symptoms of seasonal affective disorder, we should probably look at the symptoms that would generally accompany the condition. When you break things down into more manageable chunks, you will soon start to see a light at the end of the tunnel – a way for you to change certain things in your lifestyle to make life a bit easier. There are a lot of symptoms......

Live streaming concerts help the overstressed and overwhelmed find calm

January 29, 2019 - 06:55 PM The stress of daily life has a growing number of people around the world diving into a new streaming radio station - The River of Calm - Music to Soothe Your Soul. The River of Calm is an online music channel (www.riverofcalm.com) featuring tranquil, serene music from over 70 gifted independent artists, including pianists, vocalists, guitarists and more. In addition to music, the channel showcases news and articles about music, healing, affirmations, and meditation said Ed Bazel, who created the channel. It now is calming listeners in 155 countries and is available on Alexa, Android and Apple devices. “Musicians and artists have become therapists for the soul,” Bazel said.......

6 Ways Music Can Heal You

January 23, 2019 - 06:44 PM By Louise Jensen I love music enough to incorporate sound healing into my practice, and I see the joy it brings people every day. But, here are some things you may not know about the power in music: 1) When we listen to music our brain releases dopmaine which is a feel good chemical essential for the healthy functioning of the central nervous system; it has effects on emotion, perception and movement. 2) Music is proven to physiologically affect heart rate, breathing and pulse rate resulting in physical chills of pleasure. A study was undertaken by Dr Mike Miller of Baltimore, who measured the effects of music on the cardiovascular system by measuring blood vessel size......

Tuning in: How music may affect your heart

December 27, 2018 - 10:05 AM From: Harvard Health Letter Listening to music may boost exercise ability, ease stress and anxiety, and enhance recovery from strokes. Whether you prefer Stravinsky's symphonies or the Beatles' ballads, you probably listen mostly because you simply like how they sound. You might not realize that music engages not only your auditory system but many other parts of your brain as well, including areas responsible for movement, language, attention, memory, and emotion. "There is no other stimulus on earth that simultaneously engages our brains as widely as music does," says Brian Harris, certified neurologic music therapist at Harvard-affiliated Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. This global......

'Infusion String Band' fights cancer with music

December 25, 2018 - 10:05 AM By: Lisa Huston Two cancer patients got the name "The Infusion String Band" after the chemotherapy infusions they were receiving while playing music together. LOUISVILLE (WHAS11) – They say music heals the soul. Dave Shattuck and Roger Slusher will tell you it heals much more than that. "We were hooked up to IVs and the whole nine and picking and singing the whole time,” said Slusher. The two men met at Norton Cancer Institute last year. Roger was fighting prostate cancer while Dave was tackling his third round of lung cancer. "My doctor told me if we'd been talking two years ago, he'd be saying I'm sorry instead of let's go get this,” said Roger. "I never gave it a......

Hospice patient and others sing the praises of music therapy

December 20, 2018 - 10:05 AM By:Alicia Doyle, Special to Ventura County Star When Geneva Fergusson was diagnosed with terminal bone cancer, she was told she had three to six months to live. That was three years ago. “I started to proceed to do things you’re going to do if you’re going to leave in a few months, but I didn’t have to do that,” said Fergusson, 95, who lives in Camarillo with her husband of 75 years, Fergie. After her diagnosis, she was assigned an interdisciplinary team through the Livingston Memorial Visiting Nurse Association, which, in part, provides end-of-life care services in patients’ homes. Part of that team is Lori Sunshine, of Ventura, a board......

Music therapy to help treat cancer? Doctors in India try adding a melodic dose

December 18, 2018 - 10:05 AM By: Mahesh Trivedi Doctors in India are these days adding a dose of music therapy to their treatment regimen for physical and mental ailments and seem to have hit the right note with their patients. Not only physicians and psychiatrists, but even psychologists, researchers, educators and volunteers associated with prisons, special schools, community mental health agencies and drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers are discovering the therapeutic benefits of the seven basic notes of music.Music therapy is now a potential remedial tool involving the skillful use of music and musical elements to promote, maintain and restore physical, emotional and spiritual health. Music therapists use......

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Music Therapy and Military Populations

The Benefits of Playing Music Help Your Brain More Than Any Other Activity

How and Why Music Therapy Promotes Health How and Why Is Music A Good Tool For Health?

Music For A Better Mood

Live streaming concerts help the overstressed and overwhelmed find calm

6 Ways Music Can Heal You

Tuning in: How music may affect your heart

'Infusion String Band' fights cancer with music

Hospice patient and others sing the praises of music therapy

Music therapy to help treat cancer? Doctors in India try adding a melodic dose

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