Research proves that live music can . . .

• Reduce blood pressure
• Stablize heart rate
• Affect respiration
• Decrease muscular tension
• Improve body movement and coordination
• Reduce need for anesthesia and pain relievers
• Slow down and equalize brain waves
• Relieve anxiety and stress
• Increase endorphin levels
• Boost the immune system
• Accelerate surgical recovery and physical healing
• Elicit emotional catharsis
• Induce mental imaging
• Foster a sense of safety and well being
• Sharpen mental focus
• Provide distraction
• Provide companionship


“The power of music to integrate and cure . . . is quite fundamental.
[It is the] profoundest nonchemical medication.”

--Dr. Oliver Sacks, Neurologist


“Music . . . is a service modality that can help to facilitate communication between the family and the patient who is actively dying, while also providing a comforting presence.”

--American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine


“Half an hour of music produced the same effect as ten milligrams of valium.”

-Dr. Raymond Bahr, St. Agnes Hospital, Baltimore


for research abstracts relating to therapeutic music, go to
http://mhtp.org/Data/Web/researchabstracts2006.pdf
research.html