Use of Music during Physical Therapy Intervention in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: a Randomized Controlled Trial

Music enhances the human expression1 and in its universality has been played an important role in the social relations2, being suggested as a resource for health improvement3. Songs with more serene rhythms and melodies, calm and simple harmony are suggested to provide feelings of tranquility4 and physiological stability1,5. This more relaxed state leads to decrease heart and respiration rates, anxiety and agitation6,7. These characteristics have encourage the use of music in hospitals, especially in neonatal intensive care unit2,7,8. Music therapy is defined as the prescription of music and the musical interventions to restore, maintain and improve newborn’s emotional standpoint, physiological and your wellness8. Studies show music therapy as a way to promote improvement of clinical and social status in preterm newborns, improving, among other conditions, heart and respiratory rate, level of USE OF MUSIC DURING PHYSICAL THERAPY INTERVENTION IN A NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL