Music can help People Recover from Cardiovascular Issues
Perhaps, Colbie Caillat was righter than she knew when she said: “A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.” As it turns out music can do far more than simply make you feel good. Music does a lot for people without any health complications, but for people who are recovering from cardiovascular complications, music can make a real difference in the recovery process.
While music isn’t going to restart your heart or unclog your arteries it can still be quite helpful in aiding in the recovery process of some heart procedures. Music has helped people get back on their feet in the wake of a stroke and heart attack. In a healthy individual music has been shown to lower blood pressure by causing the blood vessels to relax.
Because music has so many useful benefits for one’s overall health, like reducing anxiety, it’s no wonder music therapy is used to help people recover. Music can also help decrease people’s heart rate, which can be invaluable for a person hospitalized for a cardiovascular ailment. There are multiple ways to use music. One way is to work with the music therapist with the music. You can also work with the music alone. To do his simply select music that you like and makes you feel good. Then proceed to listen to it while sitting, for about 20 minutes.
As always further research needs to be done, but as it stands now just when we feel we’ve reached the pinnacle of what music can do, it turns out that it can go further still. Music can impact both our physical bodies as well as our mental state. For humans that accounts for all the ways, we can take in and process information. Indeed, music holds a lot of sway in our lives.