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Crossroads Of Music And Medicine, Annie Heiderscheit
Crossroads Of Music And Medicine, Annie Heiderscheit
Crossroads of Music and Medicine
The author proposes reuniting the disciplines of music and medicine in the service of alleviating the impact of pain, addiction, and trauma on human life. Music listening can reduce symptomology, reduce the use of medicine, and reduce costs. In the author's work conducting the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) with adults in treatment for a chronic addiction, she found that after a series of GIM sessions, patients began talking about letting go, moving on, and finding empowerment and transformation.
Musician As Physician: Interwoven Artistry For Complex, Cancer Pain Management, Douglas E. Brandoff
Musician As Physician: Interwoven Artistry For Complex, Cancer Pain Management, Douglas E. Brandoff
Crossroads of Music and Medicine
The author, who is both a classical musician and a physician, reflects on how to interweave the skills he has from experience in both realms to become a more "complete" palliative care physician when working with patients.
Drug Story Theater: Where The Treatment Of One Becomes The Prevention Of Many, Joseph Shrand
Drug Story Theater: Where The Treatment Of One Becomes The Prevention Of Many, Joseph Shrand
Crossroads of Music and Medicine
Drug Story Theater takes teenagers in the early stages of recovery, teaches them improvisational theater, then uses psychodrama to help them create their own scripted shows about the seduction of, addiction to and recovery from drugs and alcohol. They perform these shows for middle schools and high schools so the treatment of one becomes the prevention of many. In between each scene, the cast members come out of character and use power-point presentations to teach the audience about the neuroscience of the adolescent brain. Through the DST program, teens in recovery experience the rewards of positive feedback, personal value, getting …
Music Therapy For Infants With Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, Jasmine Edwards, Susan Bakouros
Music Therapy For Infants With Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, Jasmine Edwards, Susan Bakouros
Crossroads of Music and Medicine
Over a quarter of a million infants each year are born with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). There is a trend for treatment of NAS to move away from pharmaceutical to non-pharmaceutical interventions to manage symptoms. This paper describes the treatment model called Rhythm, Breath, Lullaby: First Sounds (RBL).