The Beauty of Music in Our Health

Music therapy has many benefits in helping us maintain good health and also rehabilitation when the need arises. Advanced technology that monitors cortical activity offers a chance to see changes in the brain when enjoying music.

Since music has so many calming and soothing properties it can be used, more or less, as a sedative. It works wonders for patients with chronic pain as it reduces the levels of physiological stress and takes the patient's attention away from the pain being experienced. People with brain injuries
have been found to benefit from the rhythmic stimuli to help with balance training.

Singing has been successfully employed in the rehabilitation for neurological damage.

Music has been found helpful to children with autism by employing its repetitive stimuli with the goal of teaching the brain different ways to respond as the child grows older.

Many medical maladies can be treated with music as in heart disease. Music can help to regulate heart rate, blood pressure and respiratory rate while in stroke rehabilitation music has worked in the recovery of a victim's motor skills.

Patients with dementia have benefited from music therapy in many and various ways depending on many factors such as the kind of and level of dementia and how the individual patient responds.

Music has proven to be helpful with improving social behaviors of patients which help the patient with conversation, interaction and other social behaviors. It also helps the victim in the reduction of restlessness, wandering, etc. so common with these sufferers.

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