Research has proven that music reduces the perception of pain. Music sessions significantly changed patients' awareness of pain for the better. After operation, patients exposed to music exhibited fewer symptoms
of pain, had lower blood pressure, and required fewer pain-relieving medications.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center Arts programs benefit more than 300,000 patients a year in our clinics and hospitals.
Art Exhibitions • three galleries promote artistic expression that relates to the health care experience and celebrates the life of the Medical Center | Music at the bedside • Musicians on Call (MOC) was founded in 1999 with the mission of bringing live and recorded music to the bedsides of over 40,000 patients in healthcare facilities. MOC partnered with Vanderbilt University Medical Center Arts in 2007 to launch the first national branch of MOC in Nashville. Volunteer musicians and guides visit the Monroe Care Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt twice a week, Vanderbilt University Hospital four times a week, and the Vanderbilt Stallworth Rehabilitation Hospital, as well as the VA (Veterans) Hospitals in Nashville and Murfreesboro, and Bordeaux Long-Term Care. |
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