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Music Therapy in Pediatrics

Laura Avers, MT-BC

Department of Child Life Children's Hospital of Michigan, Wayne State Univ. Detroit, MI

Ambika Mathur, PhD

Department of Pediatrics Children's Hospital of Michigan, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

Deepak Kamat, MD, PhD

Department of Pediatrics Children's Hospital of Michigan, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, dkamat@dmc .org

The soothing effects of music have been well described over the centuries and across cultures. In more recent times, studies have shown the beneficial effects of music in alleviating symptoms in a wide variety of clinical and psychologic conditions. Music therapy has been primarily used as an intervention to control emotional states, in pain management, cognitive processing, and stress management. Stress is associated with increased production of the stress hormone cortisol, which is known to suppress immune responses. Several studies in the past few decades have demonstrated a positive effect of music therapy on reducing stress or increasing immune responses, or both. Music therapy should therefore be considered as a valuable addition to standard pharmacologic therapeutic modalities in enhancing the immune response and lowering stress levels in such conditions. This article reviews the role of music as a therapeutic modality and the future for music therapy, particularly in pediatrics.

Key Words: complementary therapy • stress • biomedical effects

This version was published on September 1, 2007

Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 46, No. 7, 575-579 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0009922806294846
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