Music accelerate recovery after stroke

It is the result of a research that scientists at the University of Helsinki has launched recently. Accordingly, patients with stroke should always listen to music for a few hours during the day.

After testing the effects of music on the support stroke treatment in 60 cases of patients with stroke, the researchers said, the music has a very positive impact to the area area of the brain that controls emotions, emotion and memory in patients. It helps speed up the recovery process in the lesion area. Since then, accelerate the recovery dragging in other vulnerable areas in the brain with nerve cell function lost due to stroke.


Test results proved in practice: a group of stroke patients after 3 months were selected and music throughout the day combined with treatments for stroke recovery results are significantly those who do not support music therapy.

In particular brain functions controlled movements, cognitive processes, the ability to focus ... on the music group had improved to 60%. In the group treated with conventional methods only improved about 29%.

Also, in the music group, control and conflict resolution brain was improved by 17%, while the other group is almost no change. This is a good news for stroke patients.