Have you ever wondered why that when you hear a favorite song that your mood instantly changes? Well, it could have to do with the how music works on the brain. Engaging in a music activity stimulates many parts of the brain. Music can help whether you need help emotionally, physically, cognitively or developmentally. What’s more interesting, though, is how it works. When used properly, music can be an incredibly powerful treatment tool. And not just because it’s relaxing and motivating, but because music therapy has a deep impact on our brains and our bodies.
What is Music Therapy?
Music Therapy is an planned use of music by professionals to help relieve their patients of any sort of pain, stress, discomfort, emotions, or any mental disabilities. …show more content…
Your brain likes consistency, so it does the same things over and over again. But if your brain has been disturbed in some way and its pattern is halted, it can sometimes be unable to move around the problem. As a result, music can help the brain find other ways to communicate with the body.
Alison Brady described it as, “old men typically like to do the same thing everyday. They will wake up at the same time, eat the same breakfast, watch the same shows, go about their routine. The brain is the same way. The brain takes the same path to every day to communicate to your body to speak, make choices, walk, etc. When your brain is injured, like with a traumatic brain injury (TBI), Alzheimer's disease or dementia, your brain's routine has been disturbed, therefore making the brain unable to communicate properly, like construction on a highway. Music can act like a GPS and help the brain find other pathways to avoid the construction zones, aka the injured areas of the brain, so to communicate to the body to function.”
Music therapists can work in schools, nursing homes, hospitals, and many other places. Some help patients during uncomfortable procedures, parents who are grieving over a dead child, burn victims, rehabilitation patients, and elderly clients who are in nursing homes. So, many of them have to learn how to play instruments with medical gloves and how to sing with a face mask …show more content…
That could be called music enrichment and it could help emotions. But when care is prescribed or clinical, like in a hospital intensive-care unit, patients on ventilators who listen to music relax, while those who don't hear music grow more tense. Music therapists would use the kinds of music that would awaken creativity, synchronize motor skills, regulate body functions and stimulate the brain. Like Mozart or Pachelbel Canon in D or maybe Ella
What is Music Therapy?
Music Therapy is an planned use of music by professionals to help relieve their patients of any sort of pain, stress, discomfort, emotions, or any mental disabilities. …show more content…
Your brain likes consistency, so it does the same things over and over again. But if your brain has been disturbed in some way and its pattern is halted, it can sometimes be unable to move around the problem. As a result, music can help the brain find other ways to communicate with the body.
Alison Brady described it as, “old men typically like to do the same thing everyday. They will wake up at the same time, eat the same breakfast, watch the same shows, go about their routine. The brain is the same way. The brain takes the same path to every day to communicate to your body to speak, make choices, walk, etc. When your brain is injured, like with a traumatic brain injury (TBI), Alzheimer's disease or dementia, your brain's routine has been disturbed, therefore making the brain unable to communicate properly, like construction on a highway. Music can act like a GPS and help the brain find other pathways to avoid the construction zones, aka the injured areas of the brain, so to communicate to the body to function.”
Music therapists can work in schools, nursing homes, hospitals, and many other places. Some help patients during uncomfortable procedures, parents who are grieving over a dead child, burn victims, rehabilitation patients, and elderly clients who are in nursing homes. So, many of them have to learn how to play instruments with medical gloves and how to sing with a face mask …show more content…
That could be called music enrichment and it could help emotions. But when care is prescribed or clinical, like in a hospital intensive-care unit, patients on ventilators who listen to music relax, while those who don't hear music grow more tense. Music therapists would use the kinds of music that would awaken creativity, synchronize motor skills, regulate body functions and stimulate the brain. Like Mozart or Pachelbel Canon in D or maybe Ella