By Sarah Sendlbeck, MusicWorx Intern #105 Many have heard of it, some have not. HIPAA is an acronym that stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. If you have ever been actively involved in a hospital or facility, these letters have been screamed at…
Source: Therapy Times Music therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program. The music therapy field is continually adapting new music, interventions, and instruments to provide therapeutic…
Source: Your Magazine Since the January 8th shooting of Gabrielle Giffords, there has been a surge in media coverage on her rehabilitation. The focus has been on her use of music therapy, a field that has grown in popularity over the last decade. ABC News…
Publication: Inside Scripps “Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!” –J.K. Rowling Margaret Speyer is an oncology patient at Scripps La Jolla and has been in the hospital for almost three weeks. On this day, she is recovering from recent chemotherapy treatment and…
Publication: Around La Jolla Author / Writer: Barbara Reuer, PhD, NMT–F, MT–BC As many people know, music has been used in medicine for thousands of years. Ancient Greek philosophers believed that music could heal both the body and the soul. And, Native Americans have used singing…
Publication: Caring Today: Practical Advice for the Family Caregiver Author / Writer: Deborah Harkins What balm can doctors or caregivers offer a human being whose life has been derailed by a devastating impairment—dementia, say, or a crippling accident, or paralysis, or the loss of the ability…
Publication: La Jolla Light Author / Writer: Will Carless Ginny Shue was decidedly skeptical when she first heard about a music therapy course offered by the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine. The law professor, who admits to having an “analytical brain,” thought the whole thing sounded…
Publication: Nurses World Magazine Author / Writer: Kathleen A. Wildasin “He could move his eyes, fingers, and toes when I met him, but could no longer speak,” says Barbara Reuer, PhD, MT-BC. “I had to find a way to connect with a teenager whose world was…
Publication: InTouch Magazine, Volume 3, 1 Author: Barbara Boughton For Kathy Winter, chemotherapy treatments at Cleveland-Ireland Cancer Center were an anxiety-filled ordeal. “I was so desperate, and so frightened of chemotherapy that I felt like bolting out of the treatment room,” she says….