Experts tell how music helps restore speech after stroke

May 6, 2022  15:36

Among neurophysiologists and scientists who study the human consciousness, it is believed that different areas of the brain are responsible for human speech and the perception of music.

The publication med-heal.ru told how it can help heal patients who have had a stroke.

Cerebral hemorrhage can lead to fairly severe consequences, including varying degrees of speech impairment. Some people stutter or stretch their words, while others develop full-blown aphasia.

But it also happens that a person can not speak, but at the same time can sing. Such patients are shown methods of music therapy, which is now actively spreading. Studies conducted several years ago show that listening to music for one hour a day contributes to a more rapid recovery of speech and motor functions in a person.

 "When evaluating people after a stroke that caused a speech impairment, we always evaluated their ability to sing as well," says speech therapist Cran McPheters.

McPheters founded the aphasia choir, which includes many people who recover speech through singing and are able to enter an active social life. Depending on the degree of damage, music can do more or less good. But in any case, even if a person is bedridden, listening to music can diversify and enrich their condition with new sensory experiences, Planet Today writes.

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