Music Therapy

The use of music therapy can reduce anxiety by refocusing a person’s attention and alter perceptions of anxiety by replacing stressful environmental stimuli with novel auditory stimuliin the attention channels in the brain (Thaut et al. 1993).

Discussion

In a pre-post-trial, Wood et al. (2021) provided personalized music assisted relaxation two times within 3 days for 20 mins each. The study found significant improvement in anxiety post treatment.

Conclusion

There is level 4 evidence that music therapy reduces anxiety post SCI.