David Ramsey, DA AMCT, Music Therapist:
You’ll see a lot of people who can’t really organize their physical movement, but when you provide a strong rhythm that’s that captivating, then they cannot not do it. So they sort of transcend the physical impairment.
ANNOUNCER:
Research has shown music therapy may improve movement and speech for patients with certain neurological conditions.
David Ramsey, DA AMCT, Music Therapist:
It’s also an exercise in reconnecting with that sense of timing, entering into timing, having command of time, and this is a very important part of rehabilitation, of having command of time.
ANNOUNCER:
The patients here see benefits beyond the research.
Horace, Nursing Home Resident:
It’s a pleasure just get involved and to sing as you see as we do.
Walter, Nursing Home Resident:
It’s so nice when everybody’s banging their own thing. It keeps my blood flowing. And then I’m warmed inside.
ANNOUNCER:
Thanks for joining us on today’s Once Daily.
