“Music as Therapy” by Kathi J. Kemper and Suzanne C. Danhauer demonstrates how passionate they are about making improvements for patients by using music as therapy. Several studies conducted and mentioned in the article show how effective music therapy can be for patients of all ranges such as chronic pain sufferers, surgical patients, premature infants, and even those who are in the dying process. Music used as therapy is also a low cost way to see vast improvements in patients. Danhauer and Kemper explain how patients in hospitals are easily affected by the environment around them. This could be anything from the lights and noise in the patients room to the medication the patient is taking. A hospital stay is always stressful, so these other factors can intensify any stresses the patient is already experiencing or potentially add more. Stress can affect a patients’ sleep patterns, appetite, digestion, behavior, immune system, and healing processes which are all going to affect the recovery time and hospital stay duration. Music therapy is a secret power that can be used against stress and…show more content… In many studies of different ages and patient circumstances, music was a low cost and effective way to lessen pain in patients. The biggest focus of the studies was concentrated on surgery patients and how music therapy could help them. For example, men who listened to music before going into prostate surgery had majorly reduced anxiety and blood pressure. There was also a study of patients who were having surgery that required spinal anesthesia and those patients whom listened to music before required less anesthetic to be as relaxed as the control group who didn’t listen to any music. The studies go on and on about the effectiveness in surgery patients and the result in almost every study was reduced anxiety along with other varying positive emotions and
