Music Therapy: The Use Of Musical Therapy In Medicine

It can bring people to their feet before a sports game, it can bring tears to people’s eyes during a movie, and it can be the medium used to tell someone you love them for the first time. Basically, music can be used for everything, but why is it not used extensively in medicine? What if I told you that music could be used to help your uncle that is undergoing chemotherapy, or your grandma that is suffering from dementia? That just by playing some soft blues in the room, your brother will recover more quickly and painlessly from his car accident. All of these realistic situations can be helped with the use of a “musical massage”. Thus, using music therapeutically should be necessary in all medicinal practices because of its ability to lower

Hospitals normally do not play music in their rooms because some people think it to be distracting or even distasteful. Skeptics believe that music should stay in clubs and away from hospitals, but what they fail to notice is that the clubs are a place where people go to lift their spirits. Enjoying life should not stop at the clubs, but instead continue on through the halls of a hospital. There have even been studies to further confirm my argument, such as the study of musical therapy on cancer patients.

Cancer is one of the world’s deadliest diseases, and is affecting people in the United States every day. Symptoms can range from persistent headaches to fatigue, nausea, or vomiting. With this being said, some people do not have the money to afford

It might be from playing basketball yesterday or just finishing a run on the greenway, but what if the fatigue you are experiencing cannot be explained? This would be identified as idiopathic chronic fatigue, which is medically unexplained chronic fatigue. As of now, there are no definitive cures for ICF which is where music therapy comes in. The experimenters that conducted the tests for the article, “The Effect of Oriental Medicine Music Therapy On Idiopathic Chronic Fatigue”, state that “the decrease in significant FSS scores in the OMMT group indicated that OMMT relieved overall fatigue of participants”. In other words, they found that FSS (Fatigue Severity Scale) scores had decreased with the use of OMMT (Oriental Medicine Music Therapy). This is important because “4-30%” of the world experience idiopathic chronic fatigue (Lee, et al.). Because of idiopathic chronic fatigue being such a global issue, something must be done to help the people suffering from it. Music is the key to unlock that door, and all people should be able to use that door, even those categorized as special.

Intellectual disability is a demographic of the world that needs help. Not only may it be difficult for them to complete daily tasks, but they may also struggle with controlling their emotions. Death is a topic that many people have trouble discussing, and people with intellectual disabilities have just