Surgical Procedures: Music Analysis

Music is a vocal and instrumental sounds combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion. Music has helped many people in the past with different types of health problems. Music also helps with mental health such as anxiety and depression. Music is amazing for your health because it helps keep your heart healthy, it can be used as therapy, and it has many positive effects on people during Surgical Procedures. Music keeps society sane and stable. To begin, music can help the heart in the sense of blood pressure and how you breath. Certain types of music helps your blood pressure as stated in How Music Affects Us and Promotes Health, "By playing recordings of relaxing music every morning and evening, people with high blood pressure can train themselves to lower their blood pressure - and keep it low." This states that that playing relaxing …show more content…
Scientists found a way to help patients with discomfort. In the article Music Therapy the author states, "In hospice patients, one study found that music therapy improved comfort, relaxation, and pain control." The author clearly states that music has improved the way hospice patients feel about their situation and calms them down. Music can also help cancer patients. In the source Music Therapy the following is stated, "Another study found that quality of life improved in cancer patients who received music therapy, even as it declined in those who did not." This shows that most patients were helped n music therapy. Likewise, musical therapy can also help with anxiety and depression. "Other clinical trials have revealed a reduction in heart rate, blood pressure, breathing rate, insomnia, depression, and anxiety with music therapy."(Music therapy). This is a perfect example to show that scientist have tested the theory of music