Music therapy helps aids patients

Music therapy helps aids patientsMusic help cure the patients of stroke, claims a new research.

This finds relation with older saying that states music helps come over stress joins hands with report offering cure to stroke patients.

The finding claims that Music therapists are chiselled in such a manner that the brain responses are stimulated and thus improvised for patients. This technique of sound reception is termed as rhythmic auditory stimulation (RAS), which associates itself between rhythm and movement.

The reports assimilated from seven studies together involved 184 people who were subjected under Cochrane Systematic Review. Four out of them concentrated upon stroke patients while three of these made use of RAS technique.

It was further noticed that RAS therapy helped improve the walking speed by an average of 14 metres per minute and at the same time patients took longer steps in this procedure.

Lead researcher Joke Bradt, Arts and Quality of Life Research Center at Temple University said, "This review shows encouraging results for the effects of music therapy in stroke patients."