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Dr. Deforia Lane shows what a music therapist does

July 31st, 2010 · No Comments · Music in the Hospital

This is a wonderful video of Deforia Lane practicing her musical magic with a variety of different patients in the hospital in Cleveland! Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

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More about Dr. Deforia Lane

July 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Announcements, Music and Cancer, Music in the Hospital

I can’t say enough good things about Dr. Deforia Lane.  Actually, many people feel the same way and I wanted to share with my readers another wonderful article that was written about her.   I met her early in my journey toward the filed of music medicine.  I consider Deforia to be a dear friends as [...]

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Deforia Lane, Masterful Music Therapist!

July 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Announcements, Music in the Hospital

Deforia Lane is a dear friend of mine.  I met her when I was on the threshold of stepping into the world of music as medicine back in 1990.  Deforia was just finishing up her Ph.D. in music therapy and was speaking at a conference in Cleveland about her doctoral research on music and the [...]

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Components of Healing Music: Ostinato

June 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Classical Music, Music Healing, Music and Relaxation, Music and the Mind-Body, Music in the Hospital

While teaching my “Intro to Healing Music” class the other day, the topic of the ostinato came up.   We were talking about the importance of people feeling “grounded” in order for healing to take place.  When people feel like they are connected to something stable and solid, then they can relax enough to let go [...]

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Components of Healing Music: Rhythm

June 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Music Healing, Music and the Mind-Body, Music in the Hospital, music and spirituality

  Of all the components of healing music that you might be familiar with,  rhythm is the one that can often hook people into a healing experience the fastest!   Rhythm is simply a pattern of long and short notes, sometimes fast, sometime slow, that creates a repetitive sequence that encourages predictability and a feeling of [...]

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Many Uses of Music in Hospitals

March 24th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Music in the Hospital

As many of you know, I have worked in a full-service medical – surgical hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. There is not a single area of this hospital (or any hospital) that could not benefit from having music incorporated in some specific well-thought-out way. And I don’t mean just having MUSAK piped in! I believe that [...]

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How Does Sound Healing Work?

February 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Music Healing, Music in the Hospital

Sound Healing has become more popular over the last couple of decades, simply because more and more research has proven that we are greatly affected mentally, emotionally, and physically by sounds or combinations of sounds. Sounds can essentially bring us up or bring us down, from a mental and emotional standpoint, and this works the [...]

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Music with Pediatric Anesthesia

December 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Music and Surgery, Music in the Hospital

Very interesting study done using music with pediatric surgery patients. School-aged children’s experiences of postoperative music medicine on pain, distress, and anxiety STEFAN NILSSON RN, MSC*†, EVA KOKINSKY MD, PhD*, ULRICA NILSSON RNA, PhD‡, BIRGITTA SIDENVALL RN, PhD† AND KARIN ENSKÄR RN, PhD† *Department of Paediatric Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Unit, The Queen Silvia Children’s [...]

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