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Live Music can:

• Reduce blood pressure
• Stablize heart rate
• Affect respiration
• Decrease muscular tension
• Improve body movement and coordination
• Reduce need for anesthesia and pain relievers
• Slow down and equalize brain waves
• Relieve anxiety and stress
• Increase endorphin levels
• Boost the immune system
• Accelerate surgical recovery and physical healing
• Elicit emotional catharsis
• Induce mental imaging
• Foster a sense of safety and well being
• Sharpen mental focus
• Provide distraction
• Provide companionship
* Facilitate transition


What Healthcare professionals say...

“Half an hour of music produced the same effect as ten milligrams of valium.”
-Dr. Raymond Bahr, St. Agnes Hospital, Baltimore

“The power of music to integrate and cure…is quite fundamental. (It is the)
profoundest nonchemical medication.”
-Dr. Oliver Sacks, Neurologist

“Music…is a service modality that can help to facilitate communication between
the family and the patient who is actively dying, while also providing
a comforting presence.”
-American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine

“Music has been recognized through research as a safe, inexpensive and effective
non-pharmaceutical way to relieve anxiety.”
-Dr. Brian Seeney, National Naval Medical Center, Maryland

“It is possible to decrease sedative requirements during surgery under spinal
anesthesia by allowing patients to listen to music to reduce their anxiety.”
-Dr. Caroline Lepage, Mainoneuve-Rosemont Hospital, Montreal

“Music is such a powerful tool for alleviating many of the symptoms that the
seriously ill and dying experience.”
-Dorothy L. Pitner, President and CEO, Palliative Care Ctr. and Hospice of North Shore


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