Stress-Reducing Effects of the
Medical Resonance Therapy Music^®

The Academy of Sciences
in cooperation with the
United Nations
World Health Organization
(WHO)

International conference on
SOCIETY, STRESS and HEALTH

Moscow,
The Academy of Sciences, Anokhin Institute of Normal Physiology

Presentation: Prof. Dr. med. G. Gerassimowitsch /
Prof. Dr. med. W. Sidorenko, Medical University, Minsk


SUMMARY
Com­pared to con­ven­tional treat­ment with drugs, Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^® has proven it­self to be four times more ef­fec­tive in re­spect of the re­duc­tion of the physio­logi­cal mani­fes­ta­tions of stress in female pa­tients who un­dergo gy­ne­co­logi­cal sur­gery. Due to its su­pe­rior ef­fec­tive­ness, Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^® also re­duced the length of hos­pi­tal stay by 20-25%. Fur­ther­more, it also has proven it­self eight times as ef­fec­tive as con­ven­tional treat­ment in re­spect of the im­prove­ment in the psy­cho­logi­cal status and has led to the res­to­ra­tion of nor­mal men­tal func­tions in pa­tients who had ex­hibited a dis­turbed men­tal pro­file.

Key words: Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic, pre-op­era­tive stress, post-op­era­tive stress, stress-re­duc­ing ther­apy, cor­ti­sol, length of hos­pi­tal stay, seda­tives, hyp­not­ics, psy­cho­logi­cal status

High stress lev­els in post-op­era­tive pa­tients are as­so­ci­ated with a mass of nega­tive health and socio-eco­nomic con­se­quences. This ap­plies par­ticu­larly to the ex­tent of the pre- and post-op­era­tive stress in women who un­dergo gy­ne­co­logi­cal sur­gery.

Stress-re­lated prob­lems are com­monly treated with nu­mer­ous me­di­ca­tions, in­clud­ing tran­quil­liz­ers, hyp­not­ics and an­al­ge­sics. These can, how­ever, have un­de­sired side-ef­fects and, in some cases, lead to long-last­ing de­pend­ency prob­lems.

It was al­ready rec­og­nized a con­sid­er­able time ago that mu­sic can re­duce stress and pain and im­prove the mood. It has now been shown that here the Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^® by the clas­si­cal com­poser and mu­si­colo­gist Peter Hübner of­fers unique ad­van­tages – a rec­og­ni­tion which is sup­ported by the ex­ten­sive ex­peri­ence gained in vari­ous set-ups for ex­peri­ments com­mis­sioned in the last 5 years in­clud­ing, amongst oth­ers, stud­ies in Minsk, Bela­rus.

The Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^® method is based on na­ture ori­en­tated and ho­lis­tic prin­ci­ples, first de­scribed by the Greek scholar Pythagoras. The ef­fect of these prin­ci­ples has now been en­hanced through the ap­pli­ca­tion of highly de­vel­oped tech­nol­ogy which makes use of the lat­est ad­vances in com­puter tech­nol­ogy for mu­si­cal syn­the­sis.

Dur­ing the past years, Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^® has been suc­cess­fully used as the main method of stress-re­duc­tion be­fore and af­ter op­era­tions for many dif­fer­ent dis­or­ders and un­der vari­ous clini­cal con­di­tions.

In or­der to ob­tain ob­jec­tive sub­stan­tia­tion for the nu­mer­ous con­cur­ring re­ports about the sub­jec­tively ex­peri­enced bene­fi­cial ef­fects of Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic, sci­en­tific stud­ies were ul­ti­mately car­ried out. These stud­ies were also in­tended to find out ways in which, through a bet­ter un­der­stand­ing of the ac­tive mecha­nisms in­volved in the physi­ol­ogy, one might in­crease the ef­fec­tive­ness of the method still fur­ther.

In the study pre­sented, Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^® was used for women be­fore and af­ter a gy­ne­co­logi­cal op­era­tion, and com­pared with a con­trol group which re­ceived con­ven­tional treat­ment with drugs. The cor­ti­sol level was de­ter­mined on the day of ad­mis­sion, on the day of the op­era­tion and 10-12 days af­ter the op­era­tion.
A sig­nifi­cant de­gree of su­pe­riority of Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^® over the me­di­ca­tion could also be ob­served in the post-op­era­tive phase, where the cor­ti­sol lev­els in the con­trol group were low­ered by a fac­tor of 1.7, com­pared with a fac­tor of 2.4 in the Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^® Group.

The female pa­tients were also evalu­ated in re­spect of their emo­tional status, for which pur­pose the Min­ne­sota Mul­ti­pha­sic Per­son­al­ity Index (MMPI) was ap­plied. This showed con­sid­er­able in­di­vid­ual dif­fer­ences, which ranged from nor­mal up to se­vere psycho-patho­logi­cal lev­els. In some cases the level of in­di­vid­ual pro­file peaks was as high as 90 t-points.

In the Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^® Group, the psy­cho­logi­cal status im­proved in 88.9% of the pa­tients, com­pared to a mere 10% im­prove­ment in the con­trol group. The psy­cho­logi­cal status de­te­rio­rated in 11.1% of the pa­tients in the Mu­sic Ther­apy group and in 20% of the con­trol group. Af­ter ces­sa­tion of the treat­ment with Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^®, the MMPI level never went above 50-55 t-points, in­di­cat­ing a nor­mali­za­tion of the psy­cho­logi­cal status. There were also fewer com­pli­ca­tions aris­ing in the Mu­sic Ther­apy group, and the length of stay in hos­pi­tal for this group was short­ened by 2-3 days.

In re­spect of the stress-re­duc­ing ef­fects of the Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^® by the clas­si­cal com­poser and mu­si­colo­gist Peter Hübner, our ex­peri­ences in Bela­rus thus sub­stan­ti­ate the re­ports of other col­leagues. This is par­ticu­larly true in the case of pa­tients un­der­go­ing sur­gery, and here the method of­fers vari­ous medi­cal and socio-eco­nomic ad­van­tages.

These include an excellent release of stress-re­lated symp­toms, an im­proved psy­cho­logi­cal status, avoid­ance of costs, side-ef­fects and long-term dam­age as­so­ci­ated with me­dici­nal ther­apy, as well as a sig­nifi­cantly re­duced stay in hos­pi­tal. We be­lieve that the un­usual cost-ef­fec­tive­ness of this new method of ther­apy opens up sig­nifi­cant pos­si­bili­ties, par­ticu­larly where fi­nances tend to be lim­ited.