Music Therapy
eMedica music therapy has been tested in patients ranging from those with intense acute pain to those with chronic pain from arthritis. Overall, music therapy decreases pain perception, reduces the amount of pain medication needed, helps relieve depression, and gives people a sense of better control over their pain.
Music decreases pain perception.
Music therapy is an evidence-based clinical use of musical interventions to improve health. This approach focuses on treatment through the creation of music by both therapist and client together. The yidaki produced sounds that are similar to the sound healing techniques used in the modern-day.