Jim Rumbaugh
372 posts
Jan 19, 2011
7:15 AM
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Can music cure the common cold??
Tuesday night when I left work at 5pm, I could feel a cold coming on, so I took one Zycam tablet (zinc cure). By the time I was home, I could feel the aches and pains of a mild fever plus a runny nose starting. Determined to have a good time I went to the Tuesday night Harmonica Club meeting at 7. Miraculously, by 9 that night, the fever was gone and my nose was clear again. This morning I’m fine. What was good for my soul was good for my body, OR germs don’t like harmonica music nor the blues.
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intermediate level (+) player per the Adam Gussow Scale, Started playing 2001
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harmonicanick
1059 posts
Jan 19, 2011
9:55 AM
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What sort of Bourbon were you imbibing Jim?:)
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Swezey8
51 posts
Jan 19, 2011
10:39 AM
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Now I don't know about the common cold lol- but definitely music as a medium and tool to facilitate stress reduction, pain management, etc. I'm a music therapy major that studied at Florida State U and am now doing an internship at UK HealthCare in Lexington. Then I will be a research assistant and study for my master's at UK. I like to make an awareness to music therapy when possible so here's my little plug!
http://www.musictherapy.org/
I am in the process of working on the final processes of a grant approval for $275,000 to work on a music therapy research study in the hospital. (It helps that the world-renowned lead surgeon is a harp player!) It's a 3 part study including pre and post op stress reduction using therapist guided music relaxation (measured by vitals and self report), ambulation rehab using music as a cue, and the third part is respiratory rehab for thoracic surgery patients using harmonica! I will be leading the research and can post more info once I get started. Currently my internship is at the Children's hospital working with pre and post op, psych unit, NICU and PICU, and cancer patients.
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Swezey8
53 posts
Jan 19, 2011
5:07 PM
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BronzeWailer
65 posts
Jan 19, 2011
5:23 PM
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Very interesting. You guys may know that harp is used for patients with lung diseases such as emphysema.
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Swezey8
54 posts
Jan 19, 2011
5:50 PM
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Yeah, there's been a little previous usage/research on using harmonica for respiratory enhancement which is where we got the idea (and because any chance I can use harp with patients I will!) The lead surgeon had wanted to teach them a simple 1st position melody, but I proposed a simple "train" rhythm as I thought it would work better for increasing air flow and use of the lungs. I remember trying to play single notes lip pursing when I started and the air flow was pretty minimal until I learned how.
I had a follow-up post but for some reason during the word-jumble at the end my post screwed up ugh. all that came out was a period lol... hopefully this goes through
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Jim Rumbaugh
373 posts
Jan 19, 2011
6:16 PM
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Dr. Pete Otaviano is a valued member of our club, and a lung specialist. He has organized harmonica classes for his patients.
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intermediate level (+) player per the Adam Gussow Scale, Started playing 2001
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BronzeWailer
66 posts
Jan 19, 2011
6:17 PM
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Train sounds like a good idea. You can "train" patients to breathe better!
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nacoran
3672 posts
Jan 19, 2011
7:19 PM
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It's a good instrument for asthma. I could see that carrying into clearing out the junk of a cold. Passing a harmonica around would probably work wonders for the old immunity by infection like they used to do for chicken pox. It's also a great instrument if arthritis or carpal tunnel problems rule out other instruments.
Or maybe there is lots of zinc in the covers. :)
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Aussiesucker
725 posts
Jan 19, 2011
7:46 PM
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Wow, wouldn't it be wonderful if we could get all our harps on scripts subsidised by national health?
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BronzeWailer
67 posts
Jan 20, 2011
3:52 AM
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Good idea, Aussie! If not Medicare, then health insurers. Subsidised harps, any idea whose time has come. I can see a market opening for a 'Ventilator' harp.
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