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Angela's Story - Spinal Cord Injury following a road traffic accident.

Angela was 27 years old when in January 2020 she was involved in a road traffic accident causing her to sustain an incomplete spinal cord injury (C2 ASIA D Tetraplegia). At the time of the accident, Angela was working as an accountant.

29th Mar

A day in the life of a Neurologic Music Therapist (NMT)

Rebekah Keenan is an experienced Neurologic Music Therapist working at STEPS Rehabilitation. She uses a variety of approaches and techniques to meet the individual needs to clients, whether that’s tapping into the emotional and psychological benefits of must and working creatively to support the wellbeing of clients; or using music and rhythm to improve movement […]

17th Nov

Pioneering Music Therapy

By Daniel Thomas, managing director at Chroma Therapies Within the realm of Arts Therapies, Music Therapy (MT) has been recognised as an effective form of therapy for many years, yet, has only come to be more widely accepted within the confines of mainstream therapy in the present day. Its visible benefits displayed ubiquitously via news […]

15th Nov

An introduction to Music Therapy

By Daniel Thomas, managing director at Chroma Therapies Music, in general, can evoke numerous emotions – it allows you to re-live a memory and cry (or laugh), to motivate you to go further in an activity like running, to excite, to help you release frustration or to lift one’s mood and give an immediate happiness […]

13th Oct

Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT) working jointly with Physiotherapy at STEPS, a specialist rehabilitation centre in Sheffield is delivering both physical and mental benefits to amputee clients as part of the specialist amputee rehabilitation programme offered at STEPS.

Rebekah Keenan (NMT) and Hannah Wright (Senior Physiotherapist) after discussions with the clinical director, Toria Chan decided to trial NMT techniques with Physiotherapy interventions in a one to one setting and a group environment. Rebekah and Hannah have seen continuing improvements amongst clients in their ability to walk further in distance with improved balance, speed […]

7th Oct

NR Times reports on how Chroma is helping amputees prepare for prosthetics through neurologic music therapy (NMT).

Lower leg amputees, both pre- and post-prosthetic, typically experience poor balance, core strength and postural control. The solution is effective rehabilitation pre-prosthetic and Chroma is helping deliver such therapies to amputees to support their rehab journey. Case Study Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT) working jointly with Physiotherapy at STEPS, a specialist rehabilitation centre in Sheffield, is […]

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