Health Benefits of Music Therapy

Health Benefits of Music Therapy

Music therapy is a form of treatment that uses music to give care to patients. Clinical studies can guarantee for the health benefits of a medically approved music therapy treatment. Music therapy improves people in a physical, mental, emotional and social way. Therapists use music therapy in different ways, which includes having people sing along to the music, meditate and relax while music plays and carry out various exercises and movements with music as a channel. When played and combined with a person's thoughts, music therapy can help to get better everything from a patient's speech to their memory and physical balance. It also provides emotional healing, helping people to develop positivity and lessen stress and pain. Music also helps people take their mind off of physical pain, which can help them manage with a number of illnesses.

Unexpectedly, music influences the body and mind in many different but powerful ways. 

The following are some of benefits of music, which help to explain the effectiveness of music therapy:

Depression. Playing or listening to music may increase the effects of some conventional treatment. Music is known to influence individual’s mood but can it relieve and cure depression? In recent studies, music therapy may work to ease depression in several ways. Like playing an instrument, it allows depressed people to express themselves emotionally when they can't directly talk about how they feel. Listening to calming music helps others relax and it’s their way to comfort themselves from self-destruction and so they are better able to let go of feelings that are troubling. Other people may find that sharing a musical experience with a therapist helps them feel more comfortable discussing their problems and feelings. The objective is for the patient to share thoughts and feelings that occur with the music making and resulting to develop solutions into his or her problems.

Autism. Music therapy supports the positive effects in the treatment of individuals with autism. A person with autism shows equal or higher abilities in pitch processing, labelling of emotions in music, and musical preference when compared to normally developing peers. The most persuasive evidence supporting the clinical benefits of music therapy lies in the areas of social-emotional awareness and communication that includes the increase of compliance, reduces anxiety, increases speech output, receptive labelling, and increases interaction with peers. Research results also support the potential for music to assist in the learning of daily routines of those people with autism. 

Stress. Listening to music can have an extremely relaxing effect on both our mind and body, especially listening mellow and classical music. This type of music can be advantageous on our physiological functions, slows down the pulse and heart rate, lowering blood pressure, and decreasing the levels of stress hormones. Music may even be able to help you concentrate and can be an effective treatment for people dealing with mental health conditions. When you are stress, there is a tendency to keep away from listening to music. Possibly, it feels like a waste of time but as we all know, productivity boosts when stress is reduced, so this is another way where you can gain enormous rewards. It takes a small effort to begin with.

Cancer. Music therapy is being practiced by health professionals. It may be used to encourage emotional expression, promote social interaction, relieve symptoms, and other treatment goals. Music therapists may use active or passive technique with patients, depending on their patient’s needs and abilities. Research found that music therapy can lower heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing rate. Music therapists work with a variety of physical, emotional, and psychological symptoms. There are no claims music therapy can cure cancer or other diseases but it is often used in cancer treatment to help reduce pain, anxiety, and depression, as well as nausea caused by chemotherapy. Some people believe music therapy may be a beneficial addition to the health care of children with cancer by promoting social interaction and support. Medical experts believe it can reduce some symptoms, aid healing, improve physical movement, and improve a patient’s quality of life.

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