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Music therapy improves mental, physical condition of very ill patients
If emotions could express it would be through music, if feeling had color it would be music, if the world had just one language and one religion, it would be music. Music has far grown from being a passion, art or talent, it has taken a leap to yet another crucial field-to heal. The new 'avatar' of music in the form of therapy serves to play a significant role in the medical field.
Music therapy can serve as a physical and psychological aid to patients coping with advanced illness, according to a new study. The researcher team says that the study is the first to gauge and substantiate that exposure to music therapy can dramatically improve the mental and physical condition of patients receiving palliative care. 'We've known for a while that music therapy can be used for a wide variety of things in a medical setting,' Live Science quoted study author Lisa M. Gallagher, a music therapist with the Cleveland Music School Settlement and The Cleveland Clinic's Horvitz Center for Palliative Medicine, as saying. 'But this particular study clearly shows that it helps improve mood while decreasing pain, anxiety, depression and even shortness of breath among seriously ill patients," she said. Gallagher was expected to present her findings Tuesday at the American Academy of Pain Management Meeting being held this week in Nashville, Tenn.
In order to reach the conclusion, the authors, between 2000 and 2002, focused on 200 patients battling several types of cancer, noncancerous tumors, pain disorders, sickle cell disease, aortic aneurysm, Gardner''s syndrome, AIDS, neurodegenerative conditions, and other so-called 'life-limiting' diagnoses. Patients were between the ages of 24 and 87, with an average age of just over 60. About 60 percent of the patients were women, and the research team noted that almost 30 percent had some sort of musical background. Music therapy first involved the patient choosing the style of music her or she wanted to hear, after which Gallagher herself (or a music therapy intern under her guidance) played appropriate selections on keyboards. The therapy averaged approximately 25 minutes, during which patient family members were also present about a third of the time.
Physical and psychological tests were conducted both before music therapy and after an initial therapy session. The results indicated that in addition to marked benefits in patient anxiety, mood, pain and shortness of breath, more than 80 percent of the patients said their mood had improved following music therapy. Movement, facial expression and verbal skills were also found to have significantly improved as well. Having had a prior musical background seemed to play no role, and, for the most part, women and men derived similar benefits from the experience.
With
more
and
more
advancements
in
the
medical
field
in
order
to
ease
pain
involved
in
various
illness
and
treatments,
music
therapy
is
sure
to
bring
about
a
remarkable
breakthrough.
It
is
surely
going
to
take
some
time
before
the
treatment
achieves
absolute
acceptance
and
reliability
within
the
medical
circles,
but
is
defiantly
makes
the
horizon
brighter
for
patience
struggling
to
survive
pain
and
suffering
it
bring
along.