The benefits of Smiling 🙂

How many times have you smiled today?  If you’re an average adult, you’ll smile 20 times today.  If you’re a really happy adult, you’ll smile 40-50 times today.  That sounds decent, until you compare it to the number of smiles a child expresses each day:  400! Why do we smile and how does it affect […]

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Music therapy for stroke patients ‘improves brain and motor function’

Music therapy can help improve brain and motor function in stroke patients, scientists say. Trial finds stroke patients’ brain and motor functions improve when they are given music therapy in addition to regular stroke rehabilitation. The patients’ mood and concentration also improved. Based on the results of the study, the researchers are preparing a proposal […]

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How Creative Art Therapy Helps Stroke and TBI Patients

After suffering a stroke or brain injury, patients often experience communication problems, emotional disturbance and loss of motor function.  The National Stroke Strategy (DOH 2007) provided that individuals who had suffered a stroke should have access to specialist emotional and practical support. Creative art therapy is cited in the strategy as one of the services which […]

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Art Therapy and Traumatic Brain Injury

My personal experience with a mild TBI and why art helps. Over the last several years, I have worked with numerous returning combat military who have sustained a traumatic brain injury [TBI] as a result of tours of duty in Afghanistan or Iraq. In brief, TBI is caused by an external force that may produce cognitive, physical, […]

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