Deans' stroke musings: Music therapy: An effective intervention in conjunction with routine rehabilitation programme in stroke patients. Comprehensive Review

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Friday, June 11, 2021

Music therapy: An effective intervention in conjunction with routine rehabilitation programme in stroke patients. Comprehensive Review

With music therapy having been proven well over a decade ago, why was this research needed? Has your doctor been incompetent for over 10 years by not having music protocols? And s/he is still employed there?

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Music therapy: An effective intervention in conjunction with routine rehabilitation programme in stroke patients. Comprehensive Review

International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Development
www.allsubjectjournal.com
Online ISSN: 2349-4182, Print ISSN: 2349-5979
Received: 20-04-2021, Accepted: 06-05-2021, Published: 25-05-2021
Volume 8, Issue 5, 2021, Page No. 31-34
Geeta Shiroor*
, Anita Nawale
Assistant Professor, Bharati Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be) University. College of Nursing, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Abstract

Background:

Stroke is the main reason of disability in adults which lasts for a prolonged period. Long-term weakness of motor activity, synergetic movements, and spasticity adds to the limitation in Activities of Daily Living, diminished cardiac functions, distorted way of walking, and imbalance during walk etc. Improving functional outcome after brain attack has become a challenge for the physiotherapist. Since ancient period nurses are using music as an auditory stimulation in clinical area to unconscious patients, stroke patients, brain injury patients. It is scientifically proven that using music as stimulation helps in improving emotional physical, cognitive, and social integrational recovery.
Method:

A systematic review was done by the researcher to support the study. A steady flow for the study was established based on the previous studies and review studies with Music Therapy. About 13 studies of last 20 years were included in reviews. For this review search PubMed, AMED, Cinhal, CCRCT, Medline databases were used.
Results:

13 studies were included in the systemic review. Music treatment to stroke patients improves control of the limb muscles. Music Listening enhance cognitive functions, attention span, memory power, organization of thoughts, and problem solving ability. It also prevents depression and anxiety in stroke patients. Recovery of speech and interaction can be speed up by encouraging patients to act in response to the music by singing, associated with dancing.
Conclusion:

Almost 80% of review studies had shown the positive result, i.e. proving music therapy helps the patients to improve and maintain their physical and mental health status. Music therapy also helps to improve emotional wellbeing, social status, aesthetic sense, and spiritual aspects. It improve patient’s functioning capacity and QOL in special aspects like improved motor activity, cognitive capacity, social skills, behavior skills, etc. So Music Therapy found to be effective in stroke
rehabilitation. (And your mentors and senior researchers didn't know that?)