Researchers are always searching for new and creative ways to consider and repair one of our most precious and sensitive organs, the brain. Here we are, in 2016, finding that one of the best solutions after all may also be the one no one was expecting, music therapy. Music therapy is one of the fastest growing fields in this generation, and every year that the programs improve, more lives are saved. There have been many instances where the study of the effect of music in the brain has been deeply observed, but in this particular case it is being looked at in a specific setting; after a stroke has occurred in the right hemisphere of the brain, resulting in major unilateral neglect. In the article “Pleasant music improves visual attention in
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17 different individuals partook in this study, with the goal of improving mobility and strength in their newfound lack of movements. The specific therapy, Ronnie Gardiner Rhythm and Music Therapy (RGRM) is a special type of rehabilitation therapy, where the use of colors, sounds, and muscles all fit into one session. Basically, patients are using a sound, beat, word, or projected color to associate with a physical movement, like finger wiggling or clapping. Over the ten-week period of classes, the results were pretty phenomenal. Many of the patients claimed at the end that they learned to love and connect with their “new bodies” and even showed significant improvement in things such as fine motor skills and posture. Many of them had a new sense of boosted energy and belief in themselves to accomplish new tasks and …show more content…
Auditory cueing therapy has a whole separate category for itself. This type of MST uses a beat or a metronome to time the on-ground steps of walking in a steady pattern, encouraging those with a neurological deficit in how you should be walking and why. The primary goal is to improve temporal effects of the brain, and help those who have trouble getting their body to listen to them when it tells them to walk. There was a series of fourteen studies, with a wide variety of debilitating injuries such as; dementia, stroke, Huntington’s disease, spinal cord injury, traumatic head injury, multiple sclerosis, and hydrocephalus. Although the journal does admit to quite a bit of short term improvement, it seems that they did not have enough participants from all groups to recommended this therapy yet, and suggested “further high quality studies are needed before recommendations for clinical practice can be made.” This final journal “Music therapy in physical medicine and rehabilitation” is a coverall of almost all types of music therapy with various types of rehabilitation cases. The section “Use of Music in Brain Injury Rehabilitation” goes a little further into a separate study regarding rhythmic auditory cueing as well. The study mentioned here focused more on the effect of balance and stability, and the improved stamina withheld with a patient’s practices. Patients went through a similar type of therapy as mentioned before, but after
17 different individuals partook in this study, with the goal of improving mobility and strength in their newfound lack of movements. The specific therapy, Ronnie Gardiner Rhythm and Music Therapy (RGRM) is a special type of rehabilitation therapy, where the use of colors, sounds, and muscles all fit into one session. Basically, patients are using a sound, beat, word, or projected color to associate with a physical movement, like finger wiggling or clapping. Over the ten-week period of classes, the results were pretty phenomenal. Many of the patients claimed at the end that they learned to love and connect with their “new bodies” and even showed significant improvement in things such as fine motor skills and posture. Many of them had a new sense of boosted energy and belief in themselves to accomplish new tasks and …show more content…
Auditory cueing therapy has a whole separate category for itself. This type of MST uses a beat or a metronome to time the on-ground steps of walking in a steady pattern, encouraging those with a neurological deficit in how you should be walking and why. The primary goal is to improve temporal effects of the brain, and help those who have trouble getting their body to listen to them when it tells them to walk. There was a series of fourteen studies, with a wide variety of debilitating injuries such as; dementia, stroke, Huntington’s disease, spinal cord injury, traumatic head injury, multiple sclerosis, and hydrocephalus. Although the journal does admit to quite a bit of short term improvement, it seems that they did not have enough participants from all groups to recommended this therapy yet, and suggested “further high quality studies are needed before recommendations for clinical practice can be made.” This final journal “Music therapy in physical medicine and rehabilitation” is a coverall of almost all types of music therapy with various types of rehabilitation cases. The section “Use of Music in Brain Injury Rehabilitation” goes a little further into a separate study regarding rhythmic auditory cueing as well. The study mentioned here focused more on the effect of balance and stability, and the improved stamina withheld with a patient’s practices. Patients went through a similar type of therapy as mentioned before, but after