You know that happy
feeling you get when one of your
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favorite songs
comes on the radio?
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That should give you an
inkling about what music
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therapy can do
for people in pain.
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Music is the
medicine of the mind they say
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and Lillian needs a large dose.
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Lillian just had
her second leg amputated
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and the mysterious
phantom pain of her lost limbs
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is agonizing, but music
therapy makes it better.
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Lillian says it
soothed my soul, it really did.
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There is evidence that music
can lower high blood pressure,
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rapid heartbeat and reduce
depression and sleeplessness.
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But most of all, it
can help eliminate pain.
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In fact a study at
Temple University showed that
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people in chronic pain
can actually find relief
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from their pain from just
one session of music therapy.
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Amy is music
therapist at Florida hospital,
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she finds that patients
receiving pain medication
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respond quickly
to music therapy.
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She states that many patients
who first rate their pain levels
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at a 10, will begin
to experience less pain
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as they listen to music
and begin to require less
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medication. Some studies
have shown music therapy helps
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some patients eliminate
the need for pain medication
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all together.
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Music is able to enhance
our moods and we know our mood
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directly influences
our responses to pain.
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Music is able to serve as
a distraction from the pain
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and music even is believed
by many to rearrange our
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molecular structure.
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I'm Jennifer
LaMountain reminding you,
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God has created each
of us with a musical mind.
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