Two small clinical trials found that one type of music therapy -- rhythmic auditory stimulation -- improved gait in patients who had suffered a recent stroke, according to a Cochrane review.
The two randomized trials, involving 98 stroke patients, showed that gait velocity, cadence, and symmetry, as well as stride length, were all improved with the therapy, according to Joke Bradt, PhD, a board-certified music therapist at Temple University in Philadelphia, and colleagues.
"These results are encouraging," they wrote in the Cochrane review, "but more randomized controlled trials are needed before recommendations can be made for clinical practice."
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