Music therapy has been used for healing since World War I and II and gained recognition as a profession in the United States starting in the 1950s with the formation of early music therapy associations. It is now used to improve communication, reduce stress and pain, and increase attention spans, memory, and motor skills for elderly patients, those with mental illnesses or disabilities, and in hospice care. The first music therapy degree program was established in 1944 at Michigan University.

3.  Starts from 1950s
 Healing therapy in world war I &II
 American association for music therapy
& national association for music therapy
 1998 - American music therapy
association
 1944- music therapy degree program
Michigan

4. Healing with sound

5. Music and the Elderly
Music and the Mentally ill
Music and Rehabilitation
Music and Labor
Music and Hospice

6.  Improve communication and expression of
emotion.
 Increased attention span.
 Pain management.
 Stress reduction.
 Improved academic social and motor skills.
 Decreased behavioral problems.
 Ability to create and play music.
 Better memory.
 Physiological and spiritual well being.

8.  http://www.musictherapy.org
 Nightingale nursing times, santhi appavu
volume 5,number 1, February 2009.