Music Therapy (in Progress)
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Yuanyuan Liao
Zachary Wade
Research proposal
Research proposal: Music Therapy and Why Does it Matter?
INTRODUCTION: Music is used to enhance well-being, reduce stress, and distract patients from unpleasant symptoms. Although there are wide variations in individual preferences, music appears to exert direct physiologic effects through the autonomic nervous system. It also has indirect effects by modifying caregiver behavior. Music effectively reduces anxiety and improves mood for medical and surgical patients, for patients in intensive care units and patients undergoing procedures, and for children as well as adults. Music is intervention that often reduces surgical, procedural, acute, and chronic pain. Music also improves the quality of life for patients receiving palliative care, enhancing sense of comfort and relaxation.
Providing music to caregivers may be cost-effective and enjoyable strategy to improve empathy, compassion, and relationship-centered care while not increasing errors or interfering with technical aspects of care. Music has been used since ancient times to enhance well-being and reduce pain and suffering. This article will review the medically relevant effects of music, focusing on pain, anxiety, and mood not discuss the use of music to enhance cognitive development or for patients with severe developmental delays, dementia, psychiatric neurologic disorders, sensory handicaps, or in institutional settings such as correctional facilities or schools, though a great deal of work has been done in these areas.
My purpose for writing this is to shed light on the industry of music therapy and show how it helps the masses when used. The overall experience with music therapy is a great one when used to its full potential and I hope that though this article, one may be able to analyze how it would be beneficial to support the music therapy industry and help it grow as a field of medicine and art. I plan on having a video conference with
Yuanyuan Liao
Zachary Wade
Research proposal
Research proposal: Music Therapy and Why Does it Matter?
INTRODUCTION: Music is used to enhance well-being, reduce stress, and distract patients from unpleasant symptoms. Although there are wide variations in individual preferences, music appears to exert direct physiologic effects through the autonomic nervous system. It also has indirect effects by modifying caregiver behavior. Music effectively reduces anxiety and improves mood for medical and surgical patients, for patients in intensive care units and patients undergoing procedures, and for children as well as adults. Music is intervention that often reduces surgical, procedural, acute, and chronic pain. Music also improves the quality of life for patients receiving palliative care, enhancing sense of comfort and relaxation.
Providing music to caregivers may be cost-effective and enjoyable strategy to improve empathy, compassion, and relationship-centered care while not increasing errors or interfering with technical aspects of care. Music has been used since ancient times to enhance well-being and reduce pain and suffering. This article will review the medically relevant effects of music, focusing on pain, anxiety, and mood not discuss the use of music to enhance cognitive development or for patients with severe developmental delays, dementia, psychiatric neurologic disorders, sensory handicaps, or in institutional settings such as correctional facilities or schools, though a great deal of work has been done in these areas.
My purpose for writing this is to shed light on the industry of music therapy and show how it helps the masses when used. The overall experience with music therapy is a great one when used to its full potential and I hope that though this article, one may be able to analyze how it would be beneficial to support the music therapy industry and help it grow as a field of medicine and art. I plan on having a video conference with