Adults and children with cognitive disorders may have trouble walking – but neurologic music therapy can be a helpful part of their treatment plan, according to growing research.
“There's something very fundamental and substantial happening in the brain when we listen to music, especially when we try to use this for improving mobility,” said Michael Thaut, a University of Toronto professor of music and rehabilitation science who directs the Music and Health Science Research Center. “Our natural response to music is to move.
The patient walks in synchronicity to the beat with a goal to maintain the speed and rhythm"without the auditory stimulus," Thaut explained. In people with movement disorders like Parkinson's, the rhythmic auditory stimulation strategy has"been shown to be extremely effective in adults, very rapidly," said neurorehabilitation physician Dr. Gregory O'Shanick, medical director emeritus at the Brain Injury Association. That includes those with motor difficulties such as stride length, stability and arm swing, he said.
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