At Mount Sinai Beth Israel, the music is generally performed live using a wide array of instruments including drums, pianos and flutes, with the performers being careful to maintain appropriate social distance.
Some hospitals have introduced prerecorded programs that patients can listen to with headphones. “Daily music therapy helped her to process the trauma and her huge fear of claustrophobia and successfully complete the treatment,” Mr. The woman, who years later was being treated for breast cancer, was terrified by the thermoplastic restraining device placed over her chest during radiation and which reawakened her feelings of being entrapped. Rossetti remembers one patient who had been pinned under concrete rubble at Ground Zero on 9/11. It can also help people deal with longstanding phobias. Manjeet Chadha, the director of radiation oncology at Mount Sinai Downtown in New York. It relaxes them without side effects,” said Dr. “Music takes patients to a familiar home base within themselves. Levitin at McGill University in 2013 concluded that “listening to music was more effective than prescription drugs in reducing anxiety prior to surgery.” Liu, assistant professor of radiation oncology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.Ī review of 400 research papers conducted by Daniel J. “Those who undergo the therapy seem to need less anxiety medicine, and sometimes surprisingly get along without it,” said Dr. A growing body of research suggests that music played in a therapeutic setting has measurable medical benefits. Mount Sinai has also recently expanded its music therapy program to include work with the medical staff, many of whom are suffering from post-traumatic stress from months of dealing with Covid, with live performances offered during their lunch hour. It is used in targeted treatments for asthma, autism, depression and more, including brain disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy and stroke. The healing power of music - lauded by philosophers from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Pete Seeger - is now being validated by medical research. Nowadays they keep in touch mostly by email. Rossetti, whose gentle guitar riffs and visualization exercises helped her deal with ongoing challenges, like getting a good night’s sleep.
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Justo, who has been free of cancer for over four years, continued to visit the hospital every week before the onset of the pandemic to work with Mr. “I felt the difference right away, I was much more relaxed,” she said. But it quickly calmed her fears about the radiation therapy she needed to go through, which was causing her severe anxiety. Music therapy was the last thing that Julia Justo, a graphic artist who immigrated to New York from Argentina, expected when she went to Mount Sinai Beth Israel Union Square Clinic for treatment for cancer in 2016. Think of a place where you feel safe and comfortable.”
“Focus on the sound of the instrument,” Andrew Rossetti, a licensed music therapist and researcher said as he strummed hypnotic chords on a Spanish-style classical guitar.
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