Music Helps Ease Discomfort After Surgeries. Part 3 of 3

AnnMarie DiFrancesca is director of the Child Life and Creative Art Therapies program at Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York, in New Hyde Park. She said that “empowering children with tools that will capacitate them to cope successfully can often change a negative experience into a positive one – one which leaves the child feeling confident in their abilities to hold their procedures and treatments”.

DiFrancesca said that her own center often uses “a variety of distraction and non-pharmacologic pain management techniques, some of which include music, art and video gaming. We have seen firsthand how these familiar, non-toxic items help to ease a child’s fears and give them a sense of control over sometimes a seemingly uncontrollable situation” volumize. There’s more on preparing kids for certain surgeries at the American Heart Association.

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