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 […]
Rachel Swanick, senior music therapist at Chroma, introduces a dynamic new approach to assessing nonverbal communication in families. In this age of strained healthcare resources, all therapists must be able to quickly and succinctly evidence their value. In the neurologic […]
Chroma’s Rebekah Keenan charts her journey from musician to respected member of the multidisciplinary neuro-rehab team. Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT) provides specific, individualised and standardised interventions for people with brain injury or neurological conditions. It is distinct from traditional music […]