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Music - the new painkiller

Music is not only the food of love but also a healer of mental and physical pain.

According to doctors music therapy can help depression, memory loss and even life threatening illnesses such as cancer.

A growing number of hospitals are choosing music therapy as an alternative to tranquilisers and pain killers.

Over 124 hospitals now employ music therapy for a range of conditions from depression and memory loss to cancer - since it became state registered two years ago.

The number of musical therapists working in hospitals, health centres and private practice has increased five fold in fifteen years.

In music therapy a patient and therapist interact in a group or private session. The therapist does not teach the patient to sing or play an instrument.

Instead patients are encouraged to use simple percussion, string or wind instruments - or their own voice - to express pain or emotional stress through sound.

By responding musically, the therapist is able to gain insight into any problems experienced by the sufferer and offer support.

Music therapy works on both psychological and physical levels. Many people suffering from depression find making music is easier than talking.

Helen Odell-Miller, advisor to the department of health on music therapy, says making aggressive sounds or sad harmonies is often far more carthartic than talking.

'If someone is blocked mentally their thought processes can become interrupted. The only way they can communicate is through music.'

Also, for many people suffering from memory loss the spoken language has become meaningless. Music can help patients remember tunes or songs and get in touch with their history. This is because the part of the brain which processes music is located next to memory.

People also respond well to music on a physiological level. Playing music has been shown to slow down the heart beat and stabilise breathing.

A therapist uses music to match the breathing rhythm of a patient. Classical music can slow down the heart beat, helping patients to breathe deeply through relaxation and fall asleep, while rave music will speed up the heart beat and encourage patients to move about, exercise muscles, increase circulation and express feelings.

For people suffering from pain such as child labour or serious diseases such as cancer, putting pain into noise is very cathartic. This form of expression releases pain inside the body and helps the body to relax.

A recent American study carried out by Professor Standley revealed that women in labour suffered less pain and stress if they listened to music they liked.

Catherine Sweeney, a music therapist at Derian House Children's Hospice, Chorley, Lancashire, says it is not surprising that people have such a positive response to music.

'Sound develops before all other senses in the foetus. People therefore have an innate response to music - whether they can play an instrument or not.'

• A psychiatrist or doctor can refer you to a music therapist if you are already in hospital and a music therapist is available. Alternatively ask your local doctor who may be able to help.

• If you want to contact a music therapist privately, call The Association of Professional Musical Therapists on 01458 834919, or visit www.apmt.org. Sessions cost from £25 for one hour.

• The British Society for Music Therapy, www.bsmt.org, is organising an introduction to music therapy on 19 May, 10am-4pm. For further information call 020 8368 8879 for details.