Music therapy and asthma

 

I want to post about an article on the Spanish newspaper 20 minutos. es http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/393962/0/tuba/asma/curacion commenting on the recovery of a nine year-old asthma patient who suffered the illness since he was a baby, thanks to his tuba practice.

Yoshiko Fukuda, Japanese music therapist, has done research in this area.

In her work  ¹, we read that as early as in 1729 Dr. Richard Brown wrote in his book Medical Music that when an asthma patient is told to sing between crises, he performs a regular respiratory exercise, which becomes effective over time to smoothen the suffering during the asthmatic crisis and to prevent new attacks.

In the chapter written by Fukuda we find ten music therapy strategies to treat asthma, one approach for asthmatic crisis management and the results of her research with children and adults.

1Musicoterapia en medicina. Aplicaciones prácticas. P. Martí-Augé y M. Mercadal-Brotons, capítulo siete, Musicoterapia y Asma.