How Music Can Help With Stress Reduction
What is stress, and how can music help us cope better when we are experiencing stress? The NIH describes three types of stress: routine stress related to work, family and other daily responsibilities, stress from sudden negative change such as loss of a job, divorce or illness, and traumatic stress. With chronic stress, the hormones released to face…
Music And Movement
What is another way for our audiences and our communities to engage in the music listening experience? In a word: Eurhythmics, also known as Dalcroze Eurhythmics: the active embodiment of music rhythm, tempo, phrasing and melodic contour, dynamics and musical expression using movement. Eurhythmics can be of great benefit when working with: Students with special needs as a sensorimotor treatment….
Children’s Hospital Memorial Service Program
Instruments: String quartet, or flute, violin, viola and cello Prelude includes: Air on the G String (Bach) Pavane (Faure) Flower Duet from Lakme (Delibes) Meditation from Thais (Massenet) Wachet auf (Bach) Air in F (Handel) Pie Jesu (Faure) if not used for the Meditation Invocation Pastoral care Welcome by Vice-President or President of Children’s Hospital The Empty Table …
Script For A Presentation To Medical Students On Music And Its Uses For Patients In Addressing Anxiety, Post-Op Recovery And Rehab
Introduction In July 1999 I was diagnosed with breast cancer through a routine mammogram. Over the next two months I had a biopsy, 3 diagnostic surgeries and a mastectomy, followed by four rounds of chemotherapy. At the 18-month mark I had a six-hour free-flap reconstruction and three months later the final touches on reconstruction. Soon after chemotherapy was…
Script And Playlist For A Successful Aging Presentation For Older Adults
A successful aging program often emphasizes stress reduction, participating in activities that strengthen connection with others and staying physically active. In keeping with those goals, in the sample program below, the group practices deep breathing, sings familiar songs together and does upper body movements to music. Background: They meet regularly for sessions on nutrition and maintaining an active…
Script For An Outpatient Ostomy Support Group Presentation At A Hospital
1. Introduce the sound of your instrument. Play familiar tunes as if warming up. I am introduced 2. Connect to the time of year and the location of the presentation. Thanks for coming. By the way, congratulations on your many wellness programs: The Cinco de Mayo 5K, your fitness lending library, your cardio jazzercise, salsa, the summer fitness…
Sample Template For A Children’s Hospital Event
Location: such as The Atrium at Children’s Hospital Our possible goals for this session might be: to reduce stress and anxiety, uplift, help create a calming environment and take patients out of their stressful personal space for a while. Venue description, likely audience, acoustics. Describe: what is the ambient noise level? Are listeners seated or passing by? Who is listening? Contact person telephone, email…
Music For Exercise And Beyond
We often listen to music as we exercise, but why? Among other things, it distracts us from feeling tired or noticing small aches and pains. It provides a rhythm which our bodies try to match, thereby pushing us to go further, longer, or with greater intensity-enhancing our performance. It gives us the impetus to get moving. When using…
On Resilience
Reflections of a former cancer patient. We hear a lot lately about stress and its effect on the body. But stress management discussions actually lead us to a larger question, which is: how can we as individuals become more resilient? What do we mean by resilience? We know that some people, no matter what ill winds blow their way, manage…
Music And Wellness Activities
Music and wellness activities are designed to give participants experience with music-related ways of managing stress, with the goal of enhancing stress-coping abilities. Participants learn many ways of participating in and responding to music, and can choose an activity that helps support their needs. A presentation can include opportunities for participants to try out some of the following…
Finding Your Music, Expanding Your Choices
Finding your music, expanding your choices Music can help support your needs, whether they be for pain management, stress management, validating your feelings, distraction, help going back to sleep, or reaching your exercise goals. But to do this, you may need to expand your listening choices. The suggestions that follow (below) are meant to encourage you to explore…
How To Provide Affordable Live Music In Your Healthcare Facilities
Creating a sustainable, low-cost collaboration of professional orchestral musicians, your local university’s music performance and arts administration students, and music therapists in your healthcare community. First, a little background: In 2000, with no budget, I began to develop the collaborative model we will be discussing today. In establishing and fostering the relationships between two of our major Pittsburgh…
Uses Of Music For Hospital Patients In The Hospital Setting
In your local children’s hospital musicians can work with resident music therapists to determine the best locations and opportunities for music events. Besides providing music for holidays, musicians could play for a pancake breakfast for families, or play in an atrium where video could be streamed to patient rooms or to areas where patients are immune compromised. Possible…
What Is In Your Children’s Hospital Playbook?
Designing your music event: How do you determine what music should be in your playbook? Let’s look at a possible children’s hospital pancake breakfast which includes patients and their families. What is the setting? A large room with round tables where individual families are sitting and eating and a breakfast buffet at one end. Patients range in age…