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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.
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).