Cradle the Growth.
Healing Notes launches this exciting new neonatal intensive care unit program in the spring of 2008. Using research-based and tested multimodal stimulation (with voice of mother or music therapist), oxygen saturation levels increase, distress behaviors are reduced, weight gain accelerates, and parent/baby bonding is enhanced.
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Music Therapy with Children Diagnosed
with Cancer at Rady Children's Hospital.
Using a family-centered approach to song-writing, music-making, and specific interventions designed to meet therapeutic goals, highly trained, board-certified music therapists are able to promote pain management, accelerate the healing process, and enhance the lives of children undergoing chemotherapy, radiation, and other cancer treatments.
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Music Therapy on the Medical/Surgical
Unit at Rady Children's Hospital.
Healing Notes ensures that children and families undergoing anxiety from long hospital stays, frequent admissions, and painful medical procedures receive music therapy. Normalization of environment, family support and cohesion, and pain management are achieved through song-writing, improvisational music-making, relaxation techniques with live, preferred music, and movement with music.
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Ronald McDonald House Dinner & Drumming!
For centuries people have used drumming to release stress, raise their spirits, and develop a culture of cooperation and community. Convenient for any family experiencing their child's hospitalization at Rady Children's Hospital, Healing Notes' provides an interactive, stress-reducing reason to celebrate life: MUSIC! Support through community and kinship are essential to surviving the hospitalization experience.