title: [Music therapy as a part of complex healing].
abstract: Music therapy is a method which takes the adventage of therapeutic influence of musie on psychological and somatic sphere of the human body. Its therapeutic properties are more and more used. Current scientific research have proved its modifying influence on vegetative, circulatory, respiratory and endocrine systems. Works devoted to the effects of musie on the patients' psychological sphere have also confirmed that it reduces psychopathologic symptoms (anxiety and depression), improves self-rating, influences quality and disorders of sleep, reduces pain, improves moral immunity and patients' openness, readiness, co-operation in treatment process. Music therapy is treated as a method which complements conventional treatment and makes up part of an integral whole together with physiotherapy, kinesitherapy and recuperation.
authors.affiliation: Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego w Krakowie, Wydział Rehabilitacji Ruchowej. aga.miska@poczta.fm
authors.forename: Agnieszka
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sliwka
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jarosz
authors.forename: Roman
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nowobilski
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D001007:Anxiety / Q000628:therapy*; D003863:Depression / Q000628:therapy*; D006261:Headache / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D009147:Music Therapy; D059408:Pain Management; D012063:Relaxation / Q000523:psychology; D007319:Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000628:therapy*; D016896:Treatment Outcome