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CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE GIVEN ARTICLE.

The writer of article “Music is Medicine”, Amy Novotney from Chicago state that
researcher are exploring how much therapy can improve health outcomes among a variety of
patient populations, including premature infants and people with depression and Parkinson’s
disease. Therefore, the author wants to show to the patient how music can be used to treat
disease. The author also mentions that the research about the music that had been done gave
positive impact for the patient. The patient that get this kind of treatment tend to show
physically react after the treatment conducted. The author also gives the condition of the
Parkinson’s patient after therapy are more likely better walking speed with bigger step.

This article is valid because the patients that get this type of treatment give positive
reaction and many researchers have done the study about this music and vibration of the
music. The author’s point of view show that she agrees completely the music does improve
health of the patient.

Next, the author’s intended audience for this article are group of patient that have
problem with premature infants, patient that have serious depression and Parkinson’s disease.
It is beneficial knowledge because people can take early action to prevent major problem for
them. Besides, general public also can learn something from this for their future because all
people may be involved with something that can cause depression, Parkinson disease and many
more. This article may be worth it for the general public and specific audience such as group of
patient to read.

The author’s tones for this article are concern and natural. In paragraph 8, the author
said “music can help adult patient”. Moreover, “the hope is that using the therapy to restore
normal communication among the brain region” and “researcher are exploring how music
therapy can improve health among variety of patient.

The author start her argument by stating that study conduct by researcher at Beth Israel
Medical Center’s Louis Armstrong center for Music and Medicine that music can soothe pre-
term babies and their parent. They study the effect of three type of song such as, a lullaby that
sung by the baby’s parent, an “ocean disc” and a gato box. This three type of music claim can
improve the health which is by singing lullaby can slow baby heart rate also increase the
amount for the baby to stay quietly alert. The gato box, a drum instrument that used to
stimulated two-tone heartbeat rhythms will improve sucking behavior for the babies. Third, the
instrument an “Ocean disc” that mimics the sound of the womb will enhance sleep for the
babies.
In addition, the support in the article is music can improve the body immune system and
reduces stress. Music also can be more effect than prescription drug that has been used widely
in our daily life in reducing anxiety before surgery. It is been state in meta-analysis of student,
Levitin and post graduate research fellow Mona Lisa Chanda, PhD. The immune system can
increase the production of the antibody immunoglobulin a killer cell that attack viruses by
listening and playing to music. Hence, the patients that listen to music while receiving an IV
inserted tend feel less pain and less distress compared with the patient who didn’t listen to
music. The author state that during painful medical procedures is a simple intervention to
reduces pain among kids.

Next, research led by Lee Bartel, PhD at university Of Toronto exploring whether
vibrations of the sound absorb through body can help decrease the symptoms of Parkinson’s
disease, fibromyalgia and depression. This therapy known as vibroacoustic, the patient is
embedded with speaker that transmits specific vibrations that can be heard and felt. This
treatment led to improvement in symptoms such as less rigidity and better walking speed and
larger step. University of Toronto’s Music and Health Research Collaborate as long-term study
for this vibroacoustic therapy. The purpose of this study is to create dosable music therapy as
medicine protocols that serve neurological function.

To conclude, the author wants to show that many study and research that have been
conduct to prove that music can be one way to cure variety of disease. Government must take
action by helping this type of medication so that it will be the new discovery in the medical
field. It will decrease the amount of patient that suffers from variety of disease.

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