Apollo, God of Music and Medicine Apollo, God of Music and Medicine was the image I wanted, when I first started my website, www.HealingMusicEnterprises.com, way back in 1999. One of my first thoughts was to have a theme that would say music and medicine, music as medicine, music for healing, and sound as healing, […]
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Harpists Bring Comfort to the Dying
I’ve been writing about music’s healing power for over 12 years now and I have seen the public’s awareness of the power grow and grow. Today, many hospitals have music therapy departments and the average person knows what is meant by music therapy, music healing, and music medicine. Almost daily, there are articles about all […]
Michael Jackson, Music, and Anesthesia
When I started this blog a little over a year ago, I certainly never thought there would be a connection between Michael Jackson, music and anesthesia. And yet, in the final hours of his life, it was quite possibly a dose (or overdose) of one of the most potent anesthetics available; the drug is Propofol, […]
Music, Ear, Mood
You probably know that music, the ear, and your mood and intricately connected. Many people have blogged about the importance of music to our workouts. There has been a lot of research about the effect of music on mood and even matching tempo to heart rate. There also appears to be a magic number for […]
The most common fears about surgery and anesthesia
By Dr. Alice Cash on December 24, 2008 in Music and Surgery, Music Healing, Music Medicine, out-patient surgery with music
Fears about Surgery and Anesthesia Anxiety before elective surgery is common. Therefore, many studies have examined interventions to reduce preoperative anxiety, including pharmacologic anxiolysis, information, distraction, and relaxation procedures. This study compared different methods to measure preoperative anxiety. The aims of the study were threefold. First, to examine the validity and utility of the self-reporting […]