Chroma, the only Ofsted registered arts therapies provider in the UK, has established a new partnership service at Barley Lane School, Exeter, delivering music therapy sessions to their students. Barley Lane is an SEMH school for up to 80 boys […]
Chroma, the UK’s leading arts therapies provider, has completed a pilot project using the innovative MiMu gloves. Led and initiated by Daniel Padhila, neurologic music therapist at Chroma, the gloves formed part of upper limb rehabilitation for post-stroke clients at […]
Clare Maddocks, Neurologic Music Therapist at Chroma highlights the main benefits she finds from delivering neurologic music therapy sessions to brain injury survivors and those living with neurological conditions: “Since 2021, 90 rehab & complex care clients have accessed weekly […]
This World Music Therapy Week, we’d like to share some of our therapists thoughts (and feedback received) concerning music therapy and the benefits it has upon participants: Music therapy through the eyes of a music therapist: “Music therapy is highly […]
Imagination may hold the key to improved quality of life as it can help alter perceptions of difficult issues in a positive way. Chroma Dramatherapist and mindfulness practitioner Katy Weston implements guided visualisation into her sessions, in essentially the same […]
Traumatic Brain Injury survivors suffer cognitive and functional impairments. Katy Weston is a experienced Dramatherapist at Chroma working with TBI survivors. Recently, Katy began working with a client who sustained a catastrophic brain injury. The client is non-verbal, uses a […]
Music Therapy is being adopted at The Portland Hospital to encourage young children with Cerebral Palsy who have undergone Spinal Dorsal Rhizotomy (SDR), to improve participation during post-operative physiotherapy sessions. SDR is a specialised neurosurgery that treats lower limb muscle […]
By Lucy Collings Pettit, Neurologic Music Therapist, Chroma Pathfield School, a special school in North Devon, recently decided to partner with Chroma, the UK’s leading provider of arts therapies. Building upon the success of the existing music therapy provision within […]
Voyage Care, a specialist residential care home provider, and arts therapy experts Chroma, have taken a unique approach to tackle isolation amongst residents by delivering music therapy sessions. Voyage Care’s supported living apartments in Lorenzo Drive, Liverpool offers occupants all […]
The work of Chroma’s therapists is invaluable to the lives of those living with a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Suffering a TBI can affect people in different ways. In some cases, the patient can be affected so severely that they […]
Every patient seen by a Chroma is different. Each day is never the same. That’s certainly the case for Lucy, who suffered a stroke. She presented to A&E with dense left-sided weakness, aphasia and vomiting. CT scans revealed that she […]
By Rachel Swanick, music therapist, Chroma There have been lots of discussions on kindness in the past weeks – in the media, on social media, in life. As healthcare professionals, we are always kind, right? We always look at both […]
