Music Therapy Services in San Antonio

Patients benefit from music therapy in many ways, depending upon their goals and concerns their music therapist will select the type of music therapy that will work best in helping them.  Hospitals in San Antonio, Texas, for example, use music therapy to help take away their patients’ pain, motivate and stimulate them toward physical movement and rehabilitation, and improve their mood.  Psychiatric facilities in San Antonio, Texas use music therapy to help with memory and cognitive functions, subdue feelings of anxiousness or nervousness and help those struggling with mental illness to feel calm and relaxed.  Furthermore,  hospice care and nursing home patients in San Antonio, Texas rely on music therapy to promote physical activity, retain memory function and even for sleep.

 

The other side of music therapy outside of medical uses, is that schools in San Antonio, Texas regularly use music therapy to help students from preschool age all the way to twelfth grade.  Schools utilize Southwestern Music Therapy to help special needs students with IEPs (individualized education plans) that exist to work with students that sometimes struggle with school.   Music therapy helps these kids in communicating feelings, remembering certain material, and can also help them with overall cognitive function.