Music Therapy heals

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Just about everybody can recall a song that has made them giddy with

happiness or brought back painful memories of someone who broke their

 

heart. Now, researchers are exploring the power of music to make you

 

healthy as well.

 

From the very young to the very old, science is uncovering roles

for

music in everything from releasing tension and improving mood to

helping brain damaged stroke patients regain their ability to walk.

 

" Music is typically seen as benign, " says Dr. O.J. Sahler,

professor

of pediatrics, psychiatry, medical humanities and oncology at the

University of Rochester Medical Center in New York. " People take it

 

for granted as opposed to thinking about how rhythm and melody can be

 

used to induce states that would be useful. "

 

And researchers are getting closer to understanding how music -

whether played, sung or simply listened to - works its magic. Over

the past decade, major strides have been made in figuring out the

neurological basis for its beneficial effects, helping music therapy

 

and its practitioners make the move into the mainstream.

 

" We are really at a crossroads where certain forms of music

therapy

will really break through and become widely accepted and practiced

because you have the science to back it up, " explains Michael Thaut,

 

professor of graduate music therapy and neuroscience and director of

 

the Center for Biomedical Research in Music at Colorado State

University in Fort Collins.

 

Music as Therapist

 

Because music is so strongly linked to emotions, some music

therapists

use it as a tool for processing moods. Using what is known as

" isomoodic " therapy, a therapist and a patient will decide on a

piece

of music that the patient wants to hear that fits with their current

 

mood, and then gradually work towards more positive selections.

 

" Let's say you are feeling very angry about something so you may

want

to start out with music that is very expressive of that anger, "

 

explains Sahler. " Over the course of 45 minutes, you work into

something which is much more calming and soothing to the point where

 

you relax. "

 

During the course of such sessions, music can help people address

issues, like what made them so angry in the first place. Other music

therapists allow patients to pen lyrics to songs and use that as a

vehicle of self-expression.

 

Because of music's ability to evoke feelings that may be difficult

to

verbalize, its use as a therapeutic vehicle for emotions makes a lot

 

of sense to some researchers.

 

" [Music] allows something to unfold and be released and expressed

that

can really help [people] begin their healing process, " says Dr.

Steven

Johnson, medical director for the Paracelsus Foxhollow Clinic in

Louisville, Ky.

 

The potentially calming and stress relieving benefits of music have

also been explored for improving behavioral problems related to

obsessive compulsive disorder, autism and attention deficit

disorder.

 

But you don't necessarily need a therapist to evoke music's soothing

powers. Its healing potential is something that anyone can easily tap

 

into, with no harmful side effects. " It's a superb self-help remedy.

 

You almost can't give yourself too much of it, " says Sahler who adds

 

that what one person finds edgy or soothing is pretty subjective: One

 

man's punk is another man's Handel.

 

Beyond Psychology

 

The benefits of music can also transcend the psychological to the

management of symptoms like pain and nausea during invasive

procedures like bone marrow transplantation.

 

" What we're looking at is symptom management, " says Sahler who

recalls

one of the earliest known uses of music during a medical procedure

was

reported by a surgeon in the early 20th century. " And we have shown

 

some startling changes in terms of how people are feeling so that

they are improving tremendously. "

 

The changes cited by Sahler may reduce or eliminate the need for

medications otherwise used to manage these symptoms, she adds. And

they have been measured physiologically. Sahler's research with bone

 

marrow transplant recipients has found that those who received music

 

therapy during the transplantation process showed signs of immune

system recovery as much as two days faster than those who did not.

 

While the physiologic mechanisms behind this healing are not yet

understood, significant strides have been made in uncovering how

music

affects the brain. " The brain that engages in music is changed by

 

engaging in music, " says Thaut who explains why listening to music

 

can potentially impact health. " The basic skeleton for music is

 

rhythm and rhythm is one of the most important elements of music that

 

influences how the brain organizes time. "

 

The effect of rhythm on timing in the brain can be used to help

Parkinson's patients and stroke patients retrain their ability to

walk in time with musical rhythm. This rhythm can also be used to

improve speech articulation and fluency disorders. Additionally,

music may also have applications in improving learning and memory for

 

people with diseases like Alzheimer's.

 

With so many possible applications, the future of music therapy

appears promising and may be limited only by the inability to

research all potential avenues. " There are loads of applications

that

we just haven't given ourselves the opportunity to explore, " says

 

Sahler.

 

So feel good about cranking up that cheesy pop song on the radio and

singing out at the top of your lungs. If it makes you happy, it may

be

making you healthy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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