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Healing Harmonies

BySherrie Dulworth

How Music Therapy Helps Children Heal at Westchester’s Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital

History and culture are filled with stories about the soothing power of music. In Greek mythology, Orpheus calmed the seas with his lyre. In a biblical account, David played the harp to ease King Saul’s troubled mind.

Today, music therapy is used to help people with a range of conditions. It can help improve fluidity of movement for adults with Parkinson’s Disease. For those with Alzheimer’s, it can prompt memory.

At Valhalla’s Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital, music therapy serves a different age population ― children from premature infants to young adults.

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