Music Medicine and innovation are always on my mind. I guess it’s because I’m always trying to find new ways to increase my own health and wellness…and I am a lifelong musician. I’ve always known what music can do for me in terms of calming and comforting me. From earliest childhood I’ve loved music and the way it makes me feel.
When I gave birth three times, I knew that I wanted music to be a part of that experience and that I did NOT want any more medication that I absolutely needed. For that reason, my husband and I took the LaMaze childbirth classes and the last time, the Bradley childbirth classes. I also knew that having soothing and calming music would make it a better experience for everyone and my doctor and nurses were fine with that.
In the mid-nineties I was told that I needed back surgery for a bulging disk, probably the result of sitting at the piano for many hours a day since childhood. Fear took hold of me as I knew I would need general anesthesia for back surgery and I had never experienced that. Luckily, I had a wonderful neurosurgeon here in Louisville, KY, Dr. Wayne Villaneuva, who was totally open to my bringing tapes and a Walkman into the OR. I had headphones attached to the Walkman and Dr. Villaneuva taped it to the operating table near my head. I spent the night before the surgery creating 3 cassette tapes with the kind of music I thought/felt would be best for the pre-surgery, surgery, and post-op periods and had a friend with me who changed the tapes at the appropriate times.
At my first post-surgery visit, the neuro-surgeon said that he believed that my music had greatly contributed to one of the most successful surgeries and recoveries that he had ever done. Of course we were all very thrilled to hear this, and, as a therapist and speaker on the healing power of music i wanted to find a way to desseminate this information to all potential surgery patients.
Jump to 2005, I attended a conference in Cancun, Mexico created for professional speakers. It was called “Cancun University” and offered 4 learning tracks to improve our businesses. One of the tracks was called “Product Innovation” and the other was called “Internet Marketing.” The very first day of the product innovation class I had the idea to create preloaded headphones for surgery patients. And within months I had filed for the provisional patent and had created a website with a monthly ezine as well as a blog. For a long time I blogged every single day!
It’s been a wonderful journey and I’m so grateful that I’ve been able to help 100’s of patients, children-elderly, to get through scary and painful surgeries and other procedures and tests, using our 5 playlists and either our headphones or theirs with our app downloaded onto it.
If you’re interested in getting the pre-loaded headphones, go here.
If you’re a hospital or clinic interested in the headphones or MP3 players, go here.
If you’re interested in our app with a choice of 5 therapeutic, hour-long playlists, go here.
The app is our least expensive option. Less than $10 per playlist.
Whatever your choice is, you don’t have to go through surgery in a state of fear and anxiety. Listening to anyone of these 5 playlists will ease the process and increase your chances of a positive result. Let me know if I can help in any way!
very nice. hearty congratulations.