Volunteers include a guitarist, harpist, violinist and keyboard player, among others. The music program is funded through a grant from the Corbett Foundation. It distracts you from everything that's going on there. Mr. Rawlins undergoes hemodialysis three times a week for four hours at a time because of complications from a staph infection he got in 1995 that resulted in renal failure. Therapists use it Hospitals are scary, stressful places, Ms. Garner points out.
Music helps make the environment a little more welcoming.
People know instinctively that music can be healing, says Dr. Cathy Creger Rosenbaum, director of TriHealth Integrative Health and Medicine Center in Blue Ash. We all intuitively know that. It helps us relax. Healing Touch and massage therapists at TriHealth and other sites routinely use music during treatments, Dr. Creger Rosenbaum says. Music can heal when energy blockages strike a sour note, according to Nancy Holbrook, a certified reflexologist who uses music and color light healing with clients at her shop, Spice of Life Health Choices, in Fort Mitchell.