Music is an essential spice of life for people. Listening to music not only makes us forget all our worries and gives peace and pleasure to our mind, but also has unexpected benefits to our health. Nowadays, music can be used to treat diseases, and this application is called music therapy. So, what is music therapy? What is the principle of music therapy? What diseases can be treated with music therapy?
What is music therapy?
Nie Cong, a member of the Professional Committee of Health Risk Assessment and Control of the Chinese Society of Preventive Medicine, said, “Music therapy is the treatment of diseases through both physical and psychological pathways, and can be applied to the treatment of physical diseases accompanied by psychological problems, the treatment of psychological problems accompanied by physical diseases, the prevention of psychosomatic co-morbidities, and the adjunctive treatment of other diseases.”
According to Hebei News, music therapy officially became a discipline in 1940 at Carlsbad University in the United States. After more than half a century of development, music therapy has developed into a mature and complete fringe discipline, with hundreds of clinical treatments established and a wide range of applications.
What is the principle of music therapy?
Jiangsu, China, reported that the principle of music therapy is actually very simple, the frequency, rhythm and regular sound wave vibration of music will cause the human tissue cells to resonate, and this resonance can directly affect the human brain waves, heart rate, breathing rhythm, etc.. When a person is in the beautiful music, the body will secrete an active substance that is beneficial to health, this substance can regulate the flow of blood vessels and nerve conduction in the body. And benign music can improve the excitability of the cerebral cortex, improve people’s mood, stimulate people’s feelings, uplift people’s spirits, eliminate tension, anxiety, depression, fear and other adverse psychological states, and improve stress capacity.
What diseases can be treated by music therapy?
1. Treatment of psoriasis
According to Lu.com, it is widely believed in the skin sector that psoriasis is a typical psychosomatic disorder, and the elimination of psychological barriers is the key to psoriasis treatment. Jinan psoriasis experts have found that music therapy can produce positive physical and mental effects in improving the mental factors of psoriasis patients and eliminating bad emotions such as tension and fear.
2.Auxiliary treatment for cancer
According to Hebei News, music therapy stimulates and hypnotizes patients by means of listening, singing and playing, so that patients’ emotions can be effectively managed and symptoms can be significantly improved for the purpose of promoting health. Although music cannot directly treat cancer, it has a very significant positive effect as an adjunctive treatment.
3. Treatment of tinnitus
The Beijing Times reported that listening to music is effective in treating both chronic and acute tinnitus. First, a sound synthesizer can be used to generate a sound similar to a specific patient’s tinnitus, and then this sound can be used in subsequent active and passive music sessions to train the patient to consciously control and regulate the tinnitus.