Category: Medical Music Therapy

Music Therapy: Healing Body and Soul in Loudoun County [Video]

February 6, 2023 It’s a story about finding the right key to unlock a new method of healing and recovery. In today’s episode of “Matt About Town,” WTOP’s Matt Kaufax took a trip to Loudoun County, Virginia, to find out more about a new technique in medicine: Music therapy. Eight years ago, nurses at Inova…

February 6, 2024
How Music Therapy Can Heal Body and Mind

Nov 1, 2023 Shannon Crocker and Kim Tapper What is music therapy, and how does it work? Music therapy is the use of music to improve individuals’ and groups’ physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Music therapy can involve listening to music, playing instruments, singing, composing, improvising, or moving to music. Still, unlike music educators or…

November 1, 2023
The Arts in Psychotherapy: Angelle Cook Research Paper Published

November 1, 2020 Our own Angelle Cook has had a research paper published in the November edition of The Arts in Psychotherapy. Read the paper at Science Direct

November 1, 2020
AARP: Bridging Sound and Science: Music’s Role in Healing

February 28, 2020 Survivors who sing Standing over a keyboard at the front of a beige conference room on a satellite college campus in Loudon, Virginia, Sweitzer, a music therapist, addressed the dozen or so adults seated in front of him. Some were joined by caregivers; others came solo. Everyone held sheet music. “Let’s start…

February 28, 2020
Loudoun Times Mirror: The healing power of music: A Place to Be offers support, community through stroke survivor choir

Dec 31, 2019 One of the greatest challenges for recovering stroke survivors is regaining a sense of self, and the Different Strokes for Different Folks choir gives new meaning to the idea of finding one’s voice. Tom Sweitzer, co-founder of Middleburg-based music therapy organization A Place to Be, began the choir five years ago to help…

December 31, 2019
DC News Now: “Different Strokes for Different Folks” program

Jun 4, 2019 A stroke or traumatic brain injury can have devastating effects on someone’s speech, but Inova Loudoun Hospital is teaching survivors how to talk, and sing, once again. Tom Sweitzer, director of the “Different Strokes for Different Folks” program, explains how music can play a crucial role for those who are recovering from strokes and…

June 4, 2019
Antidotes Podcast Interviews Ray Leone

May 20, 2019 The Antidotes podcast visited INOVA to talk to Ray Leone about the work he and our medical team do with the hospital system. Take a listen

May 20, 2019
DC News Now: Different Strokes for Different Folks: “Stroke choir” teaches survivors how to talk and smile again

Apr 11, 2019 “I was asleep and I woke up and I said, ‘Oh no.’” Tom Bradfield and his wife, Marina, were headed back from vacation when Tom suffered his second stroke in two years. The first was minor — after a week’s worth of recovery, Tom was back at work. The second, however, had devastating…

April 11, 2019
Ray Leone Pens Research Paper For Dartmouth

January 1, 2019 Our head of Medical Music Therapy, Ray Leone, has joined other renowned music therapists in a collection of research papers for Dartmouth College: Impact of an Active Music Therapy Intervention on Intensive Care Patients Read now

January 1, 2019