Strict precautions during the COVID-19 pandemic left patients isolated during already stressful hospital stays. Research indicates that listening to music recruits regions in the brain involved with social interaction and reduces feelings of loneliness. We formed a team of clinicians and clinical musicians to bring music to the bedside, as “psychological first aid.” Our goal was to reduce feelings of anxiety and isolation in patients admitted to the Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s neurosciences unit. Participants were offered 30-40-minute live music sessions over FaceTime by a violist in consultation with a music therapist and a certified music practitioner. Music used for the interventions was personalized. Participants were evaluated with the Music Assessment Tool where they indicated their musical preferences and music to which they objected. Following the intervention, participants answered a questionnaire assessing how music impacted their emotional state based on a 1 to 10
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Melanie Burns is the Chief Operating Officer of Anatomy Trains and Director of Anatomy Trains Europe and UK, with a 20-year career in international business, working with Digital Equipment Corporation, IBM, Microsoft, and Cisco. She is a board member of the Ida P. Rolf Research Association and a founding member of the Australia Fascia Symposium.
Melanie has a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Clark University, is a licensed massage therapist, and a graduate of the Anatomy Trains Structural Integration (ATSI) program. She has assisted Tom Myers internationally in manual therapy courses, trauma courses, and in several week-long cadaver dissection programs.
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Let’s back up 50,000 years or so. Imagine you’re a Neanderthal taking a leisurely stroll through the fields. Suddenly, in the nearby bushes, you hear a tiger. In a nanosecond, your entire body starts reacting. Your pulse quickens, your breathing gets shallow, your eyes dilate, your body starts producing adrenaline.
Everything happening in your body is good; you’re prepared to survive this tiger encounter. There’s just one small problem. It wasn’t a tiger. It was a tiny prehistoric weasel. Now your body is primed for fight-or-flight, your heart is racing, you’re totally jacked up on adrenaline… but there is no danger.
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