Music and Medicine: The Use of Sound Healing with Patients

Music and Medicine: The Use of Sound Healing with Patients

The Use of Sound Healing with Patients Undergoing Cancer Treatment Mitchell L. Gaynor MD This workshop will use the sounds of metal and quartz crystal singing bowls with guided meditation, imagery, and chants, to help you create a harmony within. This harmony allows you to experience inner silence. Silence is not, as commonly believed, the [...] Read more »

Good vibrations: using sound to treat disease

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Many of us love massages, but imagine a massage so deep that tissues, organs and cells could also be ‘massaged’. That’s exactly what Vibroacoustic Therapy, a low frequency sound massage, is clinically proven to do, and new research at U of T suggests that it may help people with debilitating diseases. “It is basically stimulating [...] Read more »

The Sound of Music

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More and more healthcare practitioners are turning to music for healing. Dr. Oz talks to Dr. John Ortiz, one of the country’s foremost authorities on “psycho-musicology,” about using music to improve your health. Backed up by songs from Bette Midler, Bruce Springsteen, Barbara Streisand and John Denver, Dr. Oz and Dr. Ortiz create a musical [...] Read more »

More hospitals in Michigan look to care for patients through music

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A sing-along, drum-banging session with a music therapist totally preoccupied 5-year-old Angelina Sheena of Commerce Township during more than an hour of chemotherapy Monday at Children’s Hospital of Michigan in Detroit. Music also helps Dr. Michael Cher unwind the night before surgery when he plays the clarinet in rehearsals with the Detroit Medical Orchestra, a [...] Read more »