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Harmonicas Are Helping Patients with Lung Conditions
Lung disease sufferers may want to talk to their doctors about music making. Harmonicas are helping patients with lung conditions in hospitals.
3 Tips to Avoid Back Pain While Playing
Fixing back problems can be time consuming and expensive; it’s better to avoid problems than live with them or try to deal with them once they’re unbearable. Fortunately, there are practical ways to keep your back free of pain.
4 Tips to Prevent Hearing Loss
We all love listening to music but listening to it too loudly will damage our hearing. Here are 4 tips to prevent hearing loss that are easy to follow.
Sanchez 2winz: Telling Stories with Art and Music
It’s not every duo that can claim to have been collaborating from birth, but the Sanchez 2winz, Raúl and Rod Sánchez, don’t recall a time before they were blending their talents
Music Helps Relieve Stress
Everyone deals with stress on various levels from panic attacks to insomnia, but many don’t know that music helps stress in a variety of ways.
Music Eases Pediatric Pain
According to one Northwestern Medicine study, published in Pediatric Surgery, listening to music was an effective alternative to post-surgical pain medication (opioid analgesics), which can cause breathing problems in children.
10 Great Reasons Why Playing Music Is Good for Your Brain
Music has a lot of healing abilities, but we all can benefit from making music, and here are 10 reasons why playing music is good for your brain.
Less Is Best When Treating TMJ Disorder
There are three basic types of TMJ disorders—myofacial pain (discomfort in the muscles that control jaw function), internal derangement of the joint (displaced disc, dislocated jaw, or condyle injury), and arthritis.
What Exactly is Tendonitis? A Scientific Explanation and 5 Things to Help Those Suffering
If you have a friend or spouse who plays tennis, goes bowling, or enjoys golf, you may have heard them complain about tendonitis, a common sports injury. But you’re a musician—that nagging pain in your shoulder or wrist can’t possibly be tendonitis, right?