In the Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and Integrated Medicine (IM), hydrotherapy and balneotherapy have been important treatment. They have several pleiotropic effects, such as thermal effects, buoyancy, hydrostatic pressure, viscous resistance and chemical effects. There is clinical efficacy to various diseases or states, including neck pain, low back pain, knee osteoarthritis, Parkinson disease, and so on. New trial with health promotion strategy with balneotherapy has been reported along World Federation of Hydrotherapy and Climatotherapy.
Integrative medicine (IM) has attracted worldwide attention in recent years. From the perspective of art therapy, there will be some changes in art in hospitals, medicine, medical practice and medical education. Authors have developed art in hospitals using masking tapes. Originally, hospitals and museums have a lot in common. There is professional in the museum, a curator which is from the Latin word curare, meaning care. Through interactive viewing, natural empathy would be obtained for the feelings and thinking of other people. Empathy would be a high-level "caring" in the clinical setting associated with stable logic and objectivity
Clinical effectiveness of sedative music on sleep quality was investigated. Subjects were 14 females aged 40s to 70s, and methods included listening to music during going to sleep using by sound sleep support sound player “Lullaby reverberation (Komoriuta-no-Hibiki)”, which was evaluated by Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) in 0,4,8 weeks. Thirteen cases showed decreased points of PQSI. Time to sleep and sleep duration were almost the same. The relationship figure for PSQI and time until sleeping showed general tendency of left and horizontal/lower directional arrows. These results suggest positive beneficial effect of music for sleep quality evaluated by PSQI.
Authors and colleagues have managed Shikoku Island division of Integrative Medicine Japan (IMJ) and continued various activities. There were several important conferences in 2019 concerning Integrative Medicine (IM) and Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies held the 4 th cancer rehabilitation seminar in Nagoya, as cooperation with IMJ in May. There was annual congress of our Shikoku division in October, with 14 various lectures such as music therapy, chiropractic, rehabilitation, Hinohara-ism and so on. Annual IMJ congress was held at Kagoshima in December with 1000 attendees and 100 presentations. The keynote speech by Dr. Noriko Yoshida was impressive for remarkable projects, such as national health project, long life & treasure child project, music exercise therapy with traditional song and dance, centenarian research project, island health thalasso-tourism, and psychotherapy. Author gave comments about mindfulness originated from Budhism, Pythagoreanism from Pythagoras and Hinohara-ism from famous Japanese physician Shigeaki Hinohara. These philosophies have common aspect of patient-oriented medicine, which are crucial element for IM and CAM.
| http://medcraveonline.com program, which includes restoring and maintaining optimal each health, and reducing the risk of heart problems in the future. 2 Patients with heart problem usually enter cardiac rehabilitation after acute coronary events including myocardial infarct, coronary artery bypass surgery associated with heart failure. 3 There are comparative study between home-based and center-based cardiac rehabilitation. 4 For cardiovascular system, the cardiac autonomic nervous system (ANS) has been a crucial factor in physiological and pathological responses. 5 ANS always regulates various functions such as heart rate, blood pressure and vasoregulatory responses in our routine lives. These regulations are involved in two axes, which are the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) and parasympathetic nervous system (PNS). These impaired regulations such as stress, aging, organic and other causes would lead to various cardiovascular pathology. They include hypertension, arrhythmia, ischemic heart disease and congestive heart failure. 5 Cardiovascular patients often have persistently increased sympathetic activity. 6 This state contributes to the attenuation of parasympathetic nerve activity and the occurrence of heart failure and arrhythmia. From the above, in order to prevent the onset and progression of cardiovascular diseases, it is very important to improve the balance of the autonomic nervous system. 6 On the other hand, there have been a category of music therapy (MT), which is one of the Integrative Medicine (IM) and Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). 7 IM and CAM have been developed and prevalent across the world, with a variety of treatments. 8,9 The authors have continued various activities concerning IM and CAM as the Shikoku division of the Integrative Medicine Japan (IMJ). We are music therapists and pianists and reported the efficacy of music therapy in several opportunities. 10 Among a variety of types of therapies in the category of IM and CAM, MT seemed to be one of the most popular and acceptable treatments by every person. The reason would be that it can be understood by heathy people, clients, patients with health problems and various diseases. 11
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