Incompetence reigns supreme, proving once again that stroke researchers don't even keep up-to-date in their specialty.
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Stroke patients take part in music therapy study
The first year-long UK hospital trial to assess whether music
therapy can help people recover following a stroke has started in
Cambridge.
The trial, which is now under way at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, is being led by Dr Alexander Street of the Music for Health Research Centre at Anglia Ruskin University.
The study is looking at whether music can
help improve the patients’ cognitive function, communication, motor
function and mood.
In collaboration with the auditing
department at the hospital, data is being collected on the mood of
patients before and after each music therapy session and questionnaires
are being used with patients, family and hospital staff to evaluate the
feasibility and effectiveness of a music therapy provision within the
stroke rehabilitation team.
This new inpatient trial is funded by the
Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust (ACT) and follows a successful pilot led
by Dr Street, which was carried out in conjunction with Cambridgeshire
Community Services NHS Trust community stroke teams.
That study, the results from which have been published in the journal Clinical Rehabilitation,
involved 10 stroke patients and focused on their reduced function in
one arm, with music therapy delivered in their homes over a six-week
period. It was the first biomedical music therapy randomised controlled
trial ever to take place in the UK.
Weakness on one side, or hemiparesis, is
the most commonly encountered sensorimotor impairment following a stroke
and affects a patient’s ability to wash, dress, cook and eat.
According to the British Heart Foundation,
approximately 152,000 people are affected by stroke in the UK every
year, causing more disability in adults than any other disease or
condition.
The annual financial cost of stroke,
including direct healthcare costs, productivity loss and informal care,
has been estimated to be as much as £7billion each year.
Dr Street, a postdoctoral researcher in neurologic music therapy at Anglia Ruskin University,
said: “We believe that music interventions are likely to be beneficial
for improving arm function following a stroke, with the strong rhythmic
stimulus embedded in music helping to enhance motor performance.
“However, since music therapy is not part
of standard care, it was important to test whether stroke patients would
engage with playing musical instruments. Our pilot study found that
patients did engage and were very positive about the process.
“Playing a musical instrument, in this
case percussion instruments and electronic tablets, requires a high
level of repetition of specific movements. Participants were able to
associate the movements with the precision and dexterity needed in
normal day-to-day activities, such as dressing, washing and using
cutlery, which possibly enhanced their focus.
“Our pilot study showed that this music
therapy was interactive and enjoyable, and patients clearly linked the
movements to those required for independent living. We hope our current
trial, which involves stroke patients in an earlier stage of recovery
and addresses attention and memory, speech, movement, and mood, is
similarly successful.
“We are also now planning a larger
home-based trial for arm rehabilitation following a stroke, in order
that we can more thoroughly examine treatment effects.”
The open access article “Home-based
neurologic music therapy for arm hemiparesis following stroke: results
from a pilot, feasibility randomized controlled trial”, published in the
journal Clinical Rehabilitation, is available here.
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