What can music do for us? 9 PROBLEMS THAT WE CAN SOLVE WITH THE AID OF MUSIC
Music has many different applications; We use it to
improve our mood, to do sport, to increase our motivation, to dance, in moments
of social gathering, etc., but it has other uses, more peculiar uses and even
scientific and medical, which are not only interesting, But have very positive
effects. For example, music is used as a therapy for people with dementia or
Alzheimer's, who react positively when they listen to their old favorite songs,
coming to remember lyrics and even answer questions about their past.
What other unknown applications does music have?
1. Helps premature babies
Babies who are born prematurely usually have weight
problems, as they have not reached the adequate during gestation due to being
born prematurely. To help them gain weight and strength, many hospitals turn to
music, which reduces the pain that newborns may have, which helps them to feed
themselves better and thus gain weight. In addition, experts say babies are
easily calmed when they listen to Mozart's music, which implies a reduction in
their energy expenditure, which also helps them increase their weight.
2. Plants grow better
Music not only helps babies grow, but plants also grow
better, stronger and healthier if we put music on them. In the book The Sound
of Music and Plants (1973), Dorothy Retallack relates her experiment with two
identical groups of plants; The first group put relaxing music, while the
second put rock music. At the end of his study he realized that the plants that
had been exposed to relaxing music were uniform in size, leafy and green, and
had grown in the direction of the sound source. In contrast, plants exposed to
rock music were tall, but their leaves were drooping and faded, and had grown
away from the musical fountain.
3. Heart problems
Music can help patients who are recovering from heart
disease, such as heart attacks, and surgeries, because listening to it reduces
blood pressure, heart rate and anxiety. In addition, experts say that listening
to songs that produce feelings of joy increases vascular circulation and
expands blood vessels, which helps maintain good vascular health.
4. Sports Performance
Did you know that listening to music while playing
sports can improve your sports performance by up to 20%? Music causes, in a
natural and healthy way, the same effect that we would get consuming
stimulating or exciting substances, what is known as doping in the sports
field. The best results are achieved by listening to fast beats during intense
and more relaxed workouts for stretches and low impact sports.
5. Deafness
Music can not cure deafness, but it can help prevent
it. In a study of 163 adults, 74 of whom were elderly and musicians, the
participants' hearing capacity was assessed through several tests. At the end
of the study, it was verified that the professional participants in music
processed better the sound than the rest, even with the age difference between
the groups (70 and 50 years).
6. Recovery of brain damage
One and a half million Americans suffer brain damage
every year and about 90,000 of them have to contend for a long time against the
sequelae it causes them, such as limited movement and speech ability. To combat
these terrible consequences, experts have begun to use music as a treatment,
stimulating through it the areas of the brain that control these two functions,
that of movement and speech.
The results are encouraging; Patients with Parkinson's
or who have suffered a stroke are able to regain balance and a symmetrical and
safe step thanks to the rhythm, the beatings and the tone of the music. At the
same time, the rhythm and tone of the melodies can also help the patients to
sing the words that, in a normal conversation, are not able to pronounce. Music
therapy is also positive for children with autism who can not speak, since
music helps them to articulate words.
7. Affects adolescent behavior
How does music affect, specifically the lyrics of the
songs, to the behavior of the adolescents? The researcher Tobias Greitemeyer
set out to find out; To do this, in 2008 he conducted a study with two groups
of young people. He exposed the first group to songs whose lyrics contained
messages of help and social collaboration, such as Michael Jackson's Heal the
Word. The second group listened to songs with more neutral messages.
Subsequently, the researchers accidentally dropped a can filled with pencils in
the presence of each of the groups. The teens of the first - who were listening
to positive songs - quickly approached to lend a hand to pick up the pencils
and even collected 5 times more than the youngsters in the other group.
8. Helps improve reading ability
Can music improve reading skills? A 2009 study
compared the academic evolution of two groups of young people of second grade
and of similar demographic origin, who were suggested to learn to play a
musical instrument. In this way, one of the groups learned musical notation,
visual reading of music and other skills, as well as their usual subjects. The
other group continued their academic year without receiving these lessons. At
the end of the year, the literacy level of each group was examined: the final
scores of the group that studied music were significantly higher than those at
the beginning of the year, especially in vocabulary tests; While those of the
other group of students only slightly improved.
9. Music and wine for the senses
There are already some wines whose label recommends
what kind of music should be heard while tasting, and is that a group of
researchers have discovered that some types of music can enhance the taste of
wine by up to 60%. In the study, wine tasters classified the different types of
the beverage and its flavor taking into account a key factor: what music was
playing while drinking. Thus, white wine seemed to be up to 40% more refreshing
if accompanied with cheerful and fresh music. The taste of the red wine was classified
in a 60% more powerful when accompanying it with music strong and powerful.
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