Have you ever gone for a car ride with someone who didn’t listen to music? Instead, they preferred talk radio or even worse silence (yikes!). I could never understand those people – I need music when I’m driving – the louder the better. Well, it turns out there’s good news for us music lovers, it may be good for our health.
Research on music and the brain has shown that it can reduce stress, alleviate pain and promote relaxation. And new research from the Cleveland Clinic shows that music can even reach into deep brain structures unrelated to hearing and memory to literally soothe nerves.
Studies have also shown how great music can be for reducing stress – especially before an operation or medical procedure. In fact, it was shown that relaxing music significantly decreases the level of anxiety of patients in a preoperative setting better than medication – without any side effects. How cool is that? In other studies, subjects who listened to music before a stressful event showed lower cortisol levels for more than an hour following the event when compared to those facing the same stress without music.
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In the field of medicine and health care, research continues to prove that when it comes to treatment – less is more. From a recent article in the NY Times:
More than 40 percent of 627 primary care doctors thought their own patients were overtreated; only 6 percent thought the patients received too little care, according to a survey published last week in Archives of Internal Medicine.
Why so many tests and referrals? Limited time to spend with patients, fear of being sued and financial incentives to do more were among the reasons cited by the physicians. Patients often worry about the cost of overtreatment but fail to recognize the potential harm of undergoing too many tests and procedures.
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Patients’ Regular Utilization of Chiropractic Care REDUCES the need for:
HOSPITALIZATION by 60%
HOSPITAL DAYS by 59%
PHARMACEUTICAL USAGE by 85%
OUTPATIENT SURGERIES & PROCEDURES by 62%
OVERALL GLOBAL HEALTHCARE COST by 50%
Most importantly, these statistics come not from a chiropractic study done by chiropractors, this is according to a clinical and cost utilization study conducted by an independent physician association done over a 7-year period, that includes doctors of ALL licenses. (JMPT Volume 20, Issue 4, Pgs 263-269, by Richard Sarnat, M.D.)
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