Music and Movement

08/23/2026

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-art-effect/202204/the-neuroscience-music-and-parkinson-s-disease

Music's influence on the brain is so profound that it may improve both motor and mood-related symptoms of Parkinson's disease.

08/23/2026

Carly Simon "came out" recently with her diagnosis. We welcome her and wish her well. This article just reinforces how powerful music can be to those that accept it as a therapy. For anything that aills ya!!

03/29/2026

A Rhythmic Approach to Music Therapy for Parkinson’s Patients
Featured Neurology Neuroscience· October 30, 2021. Here's a novel idea: https://neurosciencenews.com/parkinsons-music-therapy-19572/
Isabelle Buard, PhD, is conducting research to find out if music can also soothe the effects of Parkinson’s disease on fine motor skills.

Buard, an assistant research professor in the Department of Neurology in the University of Colorado School of Medicine, recently published the protocols for her study evaluating the effects on Parkinson’s patients of a specific type of music-based rehabilitative therapy called neurologic music therapy. The therapy uses specific combinations of rhythm and movement to “reprogram” certain frequencies in the brain.

“In Parkinson’s, beta frequencies are the most likely to being impaired,” Buard says. “The idea of the study is to use external rhythms that specifically target those frequencies by entraining them to a different level, modulating them to restore some kind of homeostasis in brain activity."...

Musical therapy can help to improve fine motor skills in patients with Parkinson's disease.

02/06/2026

"...an assistant research professor in the Department of Neurology in the University of Colorado School of Medicine, recently published the protocols for her study evaluating the effects on Parkinson’s patients of a specific type of music-based rehabilitative therapy called neurologic music therapy. The therapy uses specific combinations of rhythm and movement to “reprogram” certain frequencies in the brain."

03/25/2025

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-02-tunes-high-tempo-music-easier-beneficial.html
Makes sense but for those that need it spelled out:
This study shows that listening to music at a higher tempo "reduces the perceived effort involved in exercise and increases its benefits..."We found that listening to high-tempo music while exercising resulted in the highest heart rate and lowest perceived exertion compared with not listening to music," explained Professor Luca P. Ardigò of the University of Verona in Italy."

With the start of the new year, gyms are at their busiest and many people are trying to establish a workout routine to improve their health. Getting an edge by making exercise easier and more effective could be the difference between success and guiltily returning to the warm embrace of the couch. W...

02/29/2024

Mick Jones- guitarist and songwriter in the band Foreigner. Went public with his diagnosis in 2024.

02/29/2024

Richard Lewis always made me laugh through the years. Rest in peace, brother.

02/29/2024

02/28/2024

So Foreigner's Mick Jones is publicly out as a Parkinson brother.

Foreigner founder and guitarist Mick Jones has revealed that he is battling Parkinson's disease. Jones opened up about the disabling disease's diagnosis in a statement released on social media.

06/11/2023

From Reader's Digest Canada, an article about just how lives have changed with music therapy:
"...Like everyone taking part in the session, Cameron, 71, has Parkinson’s disease, and this drumming circle—known as Rx 4 Rhythm—is designed to help strengthen her coordination. “My tremor is on my left side, so learning things with my left hand is difficult,” she says. “But it’s really good to get this regular rhythm going—it gives you a feeling of overcoming a problem....The Rx 4 Rhythm drumming circle, meanwhile, came out of a 2015 study that showed that Parkinson’s patients had improved their ability to walk after six weeks of drumming practice.”
Amazing stuff.

The benefits of music therapy are being embraced by modern medicine, ranging from boosting the immune system to relieving stress and anxiety.