![]() ![]() This article was contributed by Chrissy Stack, M.S., MT-BC, NMT, CBIS, Neurologic Music Therapist at MedRhythms, and Brian Harris, MT-BC, NMT, CEO at MedRhythms. Other disciplines are welcome to complete the NMT training and incorporate aspects of this work into their care within their scope of practice. We also work closely alongside PT, OT, and SLP to provide the highest quality of care to patients in neurorehabilitation. Just like other therapeutic disciplines, NMT provides specific, individualized, and standardized interventions to treat primary goal areas. This type of treatment is growing rapidly, and is quickly becoming an integrated therapy in neurorehabilitation across the country. By using auditory rhythm to facilitate entrainment, we see an improvement in motor control! We use the therapeutic application and spatial placement of musical instruments to accomplish these goals. NMT motor treatment areas include rehabilitation of gait as well as fine and gross motor movements including strength, endurance, balance, range of motion, coordination, and dexterity. Speech and singing share neural systems, which means that we can use music and singing to positively impact many speech and language goal areas. Speech and language treatment areas of NMT include expressive aphasia, fluency, prosody, apraxia, vocalization, coordination, volume, breath and oral motor control, respiratory strength, dysarthria, articulation, intelligibility, and comprehension. Within these interventions, music provides stimulation and structure to the brain, introduces timing, grouping, and synchronization for better organization, and recruits parallel brain systems. Daniel Levitins This Is Your Brain On Music is a stimulating look into the way the brain processes music, from the anatomical structures that play a role in. NMT cognitive treatment areas include attention, arousal, auditory perception, spatial neglect, executive functioning, and memory. Other dementias and neurologic conditions.The populations that Neurologic Music Therapists treat include: There is no required musical ability for patients to participate in or benefit from NMT! NMT interventions are based on the scientific knowledge of music perception and production and the effects of this treatment on nonmusical brain and behavior functions. Research has shown that music activates cognitive, motor, and speech centers in the brain through accessing shared neural systems. Engaging in music has been shown to facilitate neuroplasticity, therefore positively influencing quality of life and overall functioning. We know from this research that being actively or passively engaged in music-making accesses and stimulates multiple areas of the brain bilaterally. The therapy is based on neuroscience research on how music is processed and perceived in the brain, and how we can use that as a tool in neurorehabilitation to improve non-musical goals. People around the world respond to music in a universal way. Music has played an important part in every human culture, both past and present. It makes you smarter, happier, and more productive at any age. What helps one person concentrate might be distracting to someone else, and what helps one person unwind might make another person jumpy.Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT) is the therapeutic use of music applied to sensory, speech and language, cognitive, and motor dysfunctions after a neurologic event or diagnosis. Music improves brain health and function in many ways. Pay attention to how you react to different forms of music, and pick the kind that works for you. Listening to the Beatles might bring you back to the first moment you laid eyes on your spouse, for instance. Reach for familiar music, especially if it stems from the same time period that you are trying to recall. It might not feel pleasurable at first, but that unfamiliarity forces the brain to struggle to understand the new sound. Research has found that when a subject listens to music that gives them the chills, it triggers a release of dopamine to the brain. New music challenges the brain in a way that old music doesn’t. Often we continue to listen to the same songs and genre of music that we did during our teens and 20s, and we generally avoid hearing anything that’s not from that era. Listen to what your kids or grandkids listen to, experts suggest. Try these methods of bringing more music-and brain benefits-into your life. The power of music isn’t limited to interesting research. ![]()
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