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| Thursday, 29 September 2005 12:13 | | BNN: British Nursing News Online · www.bnn-online.co.uk
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Researchers have found that listening to music has greater health benefits for musicians than for people who cannot play an instrument.
A study of 12 musicians and 12 non-musicians revealed that the musicians reflected the tempo of musical pieces with their breathing patterns, increasing breathing when listening to techno and slowing down with slower-paced classical.
Professor Peter Sleight, from the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, said: "Music makes you breathe more slowly and improves circulation, which is good for people with heart failure and high blood pressure.
"Musicians are more sensitive to the tempo of a piece. The slower the piece the more relaxing it is. If you listen to music repetitively it trains your breathing when you are not listening to music. In future there will be a bigger use of music therapy in everyday conditions."
Professor Derek Johnston, an expert in cardiovascular psychophysiology at Aberdeen University, said in The Scotsman: "Presumably this will only work when listening to music. Ideally you want to transfer the skill so that people learn something under music which they can apply at other times."
Dr Charmaine Griffiths, from the British Heart Foundation, said: "One person's Mozart may be someone else's Madonna and different people find relaxation in different types of music."
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