Hospitals around the world are using music therapy as a way to ease a patient’s pain, lower blood pressure, and reduce anxiety and depression, allowing patients to heal faster. Hospitals are becoming more and more aware of the healing benefits of music therapy. 

 Below, are various studies that have been done, showing the benefit of music therapy in particular cases.

•      Severe stroke patients admitted to a hospital in Helsinki, Finland listened to recorded music for at least an hour a day.  They recovered their verbal memory faster, and experienced less depression as compared to those who listened to audio books or nothing.  (Study published in the March 2008 issue of the journal Brain)

•      Premature babies listening to two hours of recorded Mozart each week had lowered their heart rate and helped induce sleep, according to researchers at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York.

•      Terminally ill patients in Australia had less anxiety, pain and drowsiness after having a single music therapy session compared to those who did not listen to music. (Study published in the May 2008 Journal of Palliative Medicine.)

Other studies have shown music therapy beneficial in the treatment of autism, learning disabilities, dementia, and pain management during labor and birth.

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