June 6, 2020 | Press Coverage
As seen in Vita — 2 min read —
Our founder and president, Raffi Tachdjian, MD, MPH, often treats patients with rare diseases like hereditary angioedema (HAE) and primary immune deficiencies, conditions that require regular infusions of medication.
Music Therapy is one of the tools he uses to treat his patients’ pain, fear and anxiety. The growing therapeutic option uses music’s calming and healing effect as a complement to medicine to achieve certain health goals.
For kids with some rare diseases, a music therapy session could be used to help calm nerves while infusing medicine. Or it could be a way to readjust to society through the common bond of music following a long layoff from school. Dr. Tachdjian calls this “prehab,” a term he first came across in the hemophilia community.
Read more about the benefits of Music Therapy as a complementary therapy for people living with rare diseases in his interview with Vita a publication from CSL Berhing.