The Use of Music Therapy as a Clinical Intervention for Physiologic Functional Adaptation

This paper develops a paradigm describing how and why these music elements can be utilized, in combination or individually, as a medical intervention to redirect fear responses and specifically target sensory integration dysfunction. Applied clinically as a continuous disturbance to malfunctioning feedback-control pathways, music therapy can thus succeed in stimulating functional adaptation, driving the physiologic system towards more optimal responses to sensory inputs.