SOUND MEDICINE
Therapeutic Music
Sound Medicine offers therapeutic harp music services in a variety of healthcare settings, including hospitals, assisted living facilities, and private homes. The goal is to pair live music and medicine to meet the needs of patients in the present moment. This can aid in creating an environment to serve the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of patients, which in turn helps facilitate a healing environment. Our goal is to bring beauty, presence and the power of music into a healthcare environment.
About Therapeutic Music
Therapeutic music is acoustic music played or sung live for individuals with various health conditions. Our Certified Music Practitioners play prescriptive, customized music to address and alleviate physical, emotional, or mental issues. Our Musicians embody the awareness that bringing beauty, presence, and the power of music into a healthcare environment facilitates healing. Therapeutic musicians focus on meeting a patient’s present needs rather than having the intention of accomplishing a specific goal or outcome. Because the music is live, the practitioner can adjust and modify the music based on the reaction of the patient and their needs in the moment.
Often performed on the harp, it can be the perfect instrument for therapeutic music. It is both portable and deeply resonant. Because of this resonance, the sound can be not only heard but felt. The skin is actually a part of the hearing process as well as an extension of the inner ear. Hearing is one of the last senses to deteriorate with age, meaning that even patients who are hard of hearing or not fully awake can still reap the benefits of therapeutic music.
What We Offer
Palliative Care
Therapeutic music can be a welcome addition to the end of life process. We can help bring beauty and comfort to a challenging time of life, whether someone is near the end of their life or actively transitioning. We also work hand in hand with hospice organziations as part of a holistic team looking out for you and your loved ones.
Death With Dignity
Some Death With Dignity patients choose to have intentional music as part of their journey out of this world. Sound Medicine provides specialized music that can provide comfort, ease, and facitliates letting go.
Memory Care
Therapeutic music can soothe and comfort some of the symptoms associated with memory care patients. It can help provide comfort and ease confusion as well as stimulate brain activity and memories. Sound Medicine is trained in treating patients with memory care issues such as dementia and Alzheimers.
Pain Management
Sound Medicine provides musical therapy for patients with illness, chronic pain, injuries, surgery, or anxiety. Therapeutic music has been proven to help alleviate pain and can lead to a reduction in pain medication.
Benefits of Therapeutic Music
The research on the benefits of therapeutic music spans decades. Studies consistently show that live therapeutic music can influence the following:
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Decrease stress hormone levels.
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Reduce blood pressure.
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Reduce anxiety in general and before surgery.
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Influence heart rate and respiration.
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Aid sleep and increase sleep quality.
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Lessen the perception and increase the tolerance of pain.
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Boost the immune system.
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Decrease the need for painkillers.
These effects contribute to a body that is more receptive to healing, which can lead to less time in intensive/critical care, shorter overall hospital stays, and increased patient satisfaction.
Many studies on the effects of therapeutic music can be found
Noah Beck
MM, CMP
Noah Beck, founder of Sound Medicine, is a Certified Music Practitioner with a Master's degree in music. He is a lifelong musician, music teacher and performer with years of experience playing music at significant life events. His journey as a CMP began with the untimely death of his father which lead him to discover music Thanatology, a modality that combines music and medicine for end of life care, and he has been pursuing this passion ever since. Noah has extensive experience providing therapeutic harp music services for individuals with various health conditions and is trained to provide prescriptive music, curated based on the patient’s current condition, needs and response to the music.
