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Music1.pptx
“MUSIC”
in
MEDICINE
Presented by:
Prabhjeet Kaur
1889090
WHAT HAPPENS?
When you feel low and listen to your favorite song?
YOU FEEL RELAXED
Ever wondered why?
Music in Healing
Music has been used as a healing modality for thousands of years
Music has been linked to health and healing in shamanic traditions for more than 30,000 years
When we hear our favorite music, our brain releases Dopamine, a chemical that has positive effect on mood.
Music can make us feel strong emotions, such as joy, sadness, or fear.
Research has shown that music has a profound effect on our body and psyche.
There’s a growing field of health care known as music therapy, which uses music to heal.
Music Therapy
Music therapy dates back to World War II. The veterans showed positive physical and emotional responses to the music.
Music therapy can be used to improve well being, decrease anxiety and pain, improve symptoms of dementia, ease the dying process improve motor skills, and help premature infants gain weight
Music therapy is widely accepted, safe, cost effective, noncontroversial, commonly available, and has minimal ethical, legal, and cultural concerns and now being used by hospitals
How music therapy work?
It is very safe method that stimulate the feelings and emotions of a person that are hard to express through words.
Not only feelings but it also stimulate body movements along with it.
Strong beats in music can affect brainwaves to stimulate in time with the beat
Fast beats bring concentration and alertness
Slower beats bring a calm, meditative state
Research show that patients do benefit from the familiar music because the ae able to recognize different patterns and pitches.
Music accesses different parts of the brain (especially the right hemisphere and limbic system) because of the many elements involved in music, such as rhythm, melody, pitch, timbre, accent, etc.
Different forms of music therapy
There are different ways through which music therapy is given to the patients and it depend on patient’s choice and condition. It can be done through following ways:
Singing
Listening music
Playing instruments like drumming.
These types of music therapies have shown positive results in rehabilitation programs of various nerve degenerative diseases.
Applications and Benefits of Music as/in Therapy
Music for speech therapy
Music is used to treat neurological problems related to speech like aphasia and apraxia.
Rhythm and melody is used to stimulate the functions of speech.
It is also used as rehabilitation program in case of stroke where speech gets effected due to stroke and become unclear and slurred. This helps to relearn the speech.
Melodic Intonation therapy is commonly used term for this type of treatment.
Dementia, Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson’s Disease
Neurodegenerative diseases where major jobs of body get impaired like memory, speech, mood swings, lack of motivation and interest can be treated with Music.
Music is used as cure to reduce the effects of this disease.
In Canada an estimated 65% of music therapists work with the cognitively impaired elderly.
Music helps to produce movements with its beat like moving hands legs and head.
Music helps to produce facial expression like joy and sad and when mixed with speech and bodily movements in treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.
Mental Health
Music has been found to treat depression and schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders.
Music has been often used in meditation to soothe our mind.
Consider the trend centered on meditative music created to soothe the mind and inducing relaxation.
Synctuition
Other Health Benefits of Music:
Treat Insomnia
Improves memory
Eases pain
Provides comfort
Improves cognition
Helps children with autism spectrum disorder
Soothes premature babies
Videos for you:
Music Therapy:
Power of Music on Brain: Dementia & Parkinson's
For relaxation:
My favorite rain and piano
Sleep music:
REFERENCES
MacDonald, R., Kreutz, G., & Mitchell, L. (Eds.). (2013). Music, health, and wellbeing. Oxford University Press.
Horden, P. (Ed.). (2017). Music as medicine: The history of music therapy since antiquity. Routledge.
Schullian, D. M., & Schoen, M. E. (1948). Music and medicine.
Sihvonen, A. J., Särkämö, T., Leo, V., Tervaniemi, M., Altenmüller, E., & Soinila, S. (2017). Music-based interventions in neurological rehabilitation. The Lancet Neurology, 16(8), 648–660
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