Hearing a certain song can
transport you to another time and place. Music has always
had the unique ability to evoke emotion. And now more
and more, music therapy is being used to rehabilitate
the sick. 7's Caterina Bandini has more.
Cooking is Carey Gordon's passion. Just two years ago,
he didn't think he'd ever be able to get behind the stove
again. Several seizures and a stroke left him unable to
walk, with limited motor skills and poor memory.
Carey Gordon says, "Numbness of my entire right side
from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet, every
thing was down. I couldn't hear properly, I couldn't,
I still can't see properly." Now music therapy is
helping Carey get his life back.
Assistant Director of Music Therapy at Beth Abraham David
Ramsey says, "Because of Carey's brain injury he
has problems remembering things. In order to play this
keyboard, he has to remember all the buttons, where they
go, what they control. He has to remember chord progressions,
so there is a multitude of neurological functions in play."
Dr. Steven Sparr from Albert Einstein College of Medicine
says, "Music has the ability to sort of unlock patients
who have severe dementia. Patients who are unable to speak
can suddenly come alive."
Music therapy helps patients like Carey with their motor
skills and cognitive abilities like memory.
"Only
in the recent years that we have had the scientific tools
to begin to see how music is processed in the brain, how
music changes the brain," explains Dr. Sparr.
Music can also be a powerful rehabilitation tool helping
substance abuse problems, brain injuries, physical disabilities,
and acute and chronic pain.
Carey says music therapy has been a miracle for him. He
says, "Music therapy works, in my book it works."
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This story first aired on
December 12, 2005 on WHDH-TV - Boston. To view more stories
on thsir station, visit www2.whdh.com.
Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation.
Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound. — Kabir
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