{"id":27687,"date":"2019-08-14T14:41:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T18:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=27687"},"modified":"2019-09-30T09:32:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T13:32:22","slug":"new-program-uses-music-to-treat-mental-and-physical-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2019\/08\/new-program-uses-music-to-treat-mental-and-physical-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"New program uses music to treat mental and physical issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"well span3 pull-right\">\n<h4>Benefits of music therapy:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Regulate physiologic measures<\/li>\n<li>Reduce pain, anxiety and agitation<\/li>\n<li>Facilitate functional movement<\/li>\n<li>Improve communication skills<\/li>\n<li>Decrease behavioral distress<\/li>\n<li>Regulate attention, memory and executive functioning<\/li>\n<li>Enhance self-expression and coping skills<\/li>\n<li>Cost Effective reimbursable treatment<\/li>\n<li>Decrease length of hospital stay<\/li>\n<li>Decrease length of medical procedures and need for sedation<\/li>\n<li>Elevate mood<\/li>\n<li>Improve patient and family satisfaction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Until research studied the matter, the idea that music could be therapeutic was just that. An idea.<\/p>\n<p>Now we know much more. According to UTC faculty members Stuart Benkert, interim head of the Department of Performing Arts, and Lee Harris, professor in the same department and coordinator of the music education program, a new degree at UTC beginning this fall will teach what most did not know\u2014music therapy can address all the bullet points listed above.<\/p>\n<p>The new, four-year Music Therapy program is the first of its kind at the university. A board-certified therapist, Katie Goforth\u00a0Elverd, helped create the program. She relays one of her personal experiences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA\u00a0six-year-old wasn\u2019t feeling well, understandable since he\u2019d just gone through a round of chemotherapy to treat his bone cancer.\u00a0He wasn\u2019t really saying anything. It was a quiet room,\u201d recalls\u00a0Elverd.<\/p>\n<p>Her job, though, was to help him feel better. Or at least not as bad.\u00a0She asked if he would like to sing a song. Yes, he said, sitting up and choosing \u201cEye of the Tiger\u201d by Survivor.\u00a0\u201cWe sang it and his behavior changes,\u201d\u00a0Elverd\u00a0says. \u201cIt really affected him physiologically. It improved the way he felt because it got his mind off what his body had been through. It uplifted his mood and it normalized his environment because, for him, being in a hospital was not a normal thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And that, she says,\u00a0is the whole point of music therapy.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Music Therapy\u00a0program began with a request to explore the idea from officials at Erlanger Health Systems. Currently there are no board-certified music therapists in Chattanooga,\u00a0Elverd\u00a0says. There are music enrichment programs, she notes, but those are not the same. The UTC program\u2019s goal is for graduates to be certified to work in three specific areas of music therapy:\u00a0pediatrics, geriatrics and those suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Benkert says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPart of it is a very physically-based therapy session that uses instruments to increase your fine motor skills,\u201d Benkert says.\u00a0For example, he says, a patient has had hand surgery and needs physical therapy but hates the standard exercise of squeezing a ball over and over to increase the ability to grip. Because of that, the patient stops doing the therapy.\u00a0\u201cSo instead of squeezing, maybe we put drumsticks in their hands or mallets for a xylophone or something,\u201d Benkert says. \u201cSay you need some fine shoulder work done, strumming a guitar will give you that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For children in hospitals, music therapy can lead to shorter stays, he says. \u201cYou get\u00a0an\u00a0earlier release where you have certified music therapists,\u201d which is especially cost-effective in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.<\/p>\n<p>For the elderly, music therapy can help physically and mentally, Benkert explains.\u00a0\u201cLots of time you can put a tambourine in their\u00a0hands\u00a0and they can keep time and make music,\u201d he says, \u201cThey\u2019re not able to recuperate the fine motor skills they had, but they still want to\u00a0try.\u00a0\u201cIf someone is having a hard time breathing and we get them singing, they\u2019re taking\u00a0in\u00a0more oxygen. I can sit here and say, \u2018Hey, let\u2019s work on our breathing\u2019 or I can say, \u2018Let\u2019s sing a song,\u2019 which is also going to have you working on your breathing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mentally, it helps them feel as if they\u2019re accomplishing something and being involved, not just sitting in their room alone, he\u00a0adds.<\/p>\n<p>Benkert says treating PTSD is one of his dream goals for the program,\u00a0but\u00a0he\u00a0acknowledges that it will take a few years before it\u2019s ready to tackle the task.\u00a0\u201cI feel that, ultimately, PTSD is an important issue that we\u2019re not facing well as a nation. Someone needs to do something, right?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSay someone is suffering from\u00a0PTSD.\u00a0Cognitively we can help them write songs about how they\u2019re feeling. We can help them identify music that physiological calms them down. 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