Music Therapy draft 2 - Billings Clinic

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Your gift will bring music therapy to Billings Clinic. The power of music can change lives. With your help, we will bring music therapy to Billings Clinic, and help our patients by giving health, hope, and happiness through the healing art of music. Art of Healing

Transcript of Music Therapy draft 2 - Billings Clinic

Your gift will bring music therapyto Billings Clinic.

The power of music can change lives. With your help, wewill bring music therapy to Billings Clinic, and helpour patients by giving health, hope, and happiness

through the healing art of music.

Art of Healing

Music therapy has also been shown to positively affect theparents of these tiny babies by decreasing stress and increasinginfant parent bonding through family centered approaches tocare. Music therapy is also an effective form of supportingcancer care for patients during the treatment process,promoting wellness, improving physical and emotional well-beingand overall quality of life.

While the practice oftreating a patient withmusic to achievespecific clinicaloutcomes may seem likea new idea, theextraordinary qualitiesof music as a healingforce have beenrecognized for hundredsof years.

The form of music therapy varies based on the individual.For infants in the neonatal intensive care unit, musictherapy has been shown to effect infant heart rate,behavior, oxygen saturation level, feeding ability andreducing the length of stay.

Your support will bring music therapy to patients and familiesthroughout the region and positively impact thousands of lives.

Give the gift of healingthrough music.