Marching to a new beat – how music therapy is changing stroke rehab

Led by a team of occupational, physio, music, and speech and language therapists, the delivery of music therapy has, so far, been enthusiastically received by patients, staff, and family members across the ward, and there is now demand for music therapy on both the hyper-acute and in-patient rehabilitation wards. Working closely alongside the team at Charing Cross, Chroma has been delivering two weekly days of neurologic music therapy (NMT) and traditional psychoanalytic music therapy to help the multidisciplinary team achieve patient recovery goals, and to offer them a way of managing the emotional demands of life immediately after a stroke.