Scoping review explores music-based movement therapy

Music-based motion remedy, often known as the Ronnie Gardiner methodology, has the potential to contribute to rehabilitation after a stroke and in different mind problems. These are the outcomes of a scoping overview from the University of Gothenburg.

The Ronnie Gardiner methodology was developed by and named after the favored Swedish-American jazz drummer Ronald “Ronnie” Gardiner, born in 1932. The methodology is utilized in rehabilitation in Sweden and internationally, however there has not been a complete scientific overview of any practical enhancements when the tactic is utilized, and the way instructors and contributors understand it.

The present overview, printed within the journal Disability and Rehabilitation, compiles the needs for which the Ronnie Gardiner methodology is used inside well being care. The examine additionally explores the potential advantages of the tactic.

“There is little question that in follow the tactic brings pleasure to contributors in an usually difficult life scenario with long-term rehabilitation wants,” says Petra Pohl, physiotherapist and assistant professor at Sahlgrenska Academy on the University of Gothenburg, and chargeable for the examine.

Complement to common rehab

Pohl has been finding out the tactic for greater than 15 years and has beforehand evaluated it for individuals with Parkinson’s illness and stroke. The earlier research confirmed that the tactic is appreciated precisely for its playfulness and nice setting with uplifting music, and social context in a gaggle.

“This is a enjoyable and fascinating method, and one thing out of the odd. It challenges each cognition and motor expertise on the identical time,” says Pohl.

The methodology is predicated on rhythm and actions, reminiscent of hand clapping and foot stomping, primarily based on a two-color word system the place the left half of the physique follows crimson notes and the precise half blue notes whereas the mouth is forming rhythmic sounds. Many issues are put to the check on the identical time: motor expertise, sense of rhythm, dual-task, coordination, reminiscence, endurance and extra.

What emerges from the present overview examine, which goals to offer an outline of the outcomes of earlier publications inside the subject, each quantitative and qualitative research, is that the Ronnie Gardiner methodology might function a helpful addition to conventional neurological rehabilitation.

Method on the rise

The potential advantages of stroke rehabilitation are the perfect documented, whereas the outcomes from different circumstances are extra inconclusive. Of the 23 research included within the overview, the bulk weren’t peer-reviewed, and are subsequently not given the identical weight.

From the qualitative research included, it seems that the Ronnie Gardiner methodology is perceived as difficult, motivating and pleasant by contributors, and plenty of skilled improved restoration and high quality of life.

“The methodology has reached a world enviornment, and plenty of issues recommend that it will likely be used extra in rehabilitation contexts sooner or later. It is subsequently necessary that it’s studied, particularly in managed trials, for higher validation,” says Pohl.