Music therapy is a specific psychotherapeutic approach aimed at treating patients using elements, types, forms and activities of music. Music therapy has been studied, educated and practiced clinically in China from primitive and feudal societies to contemporary times. The pentatonic therapy is a unique Chinese music therapy, which is mentioned in the comprehensive medical book Huangdi Neijing (The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine), which was created during the pre-Qin and Han dynasties: it corresponds to the five tones, five elements, five aspirations and the five viscera. China's contemporary music therapy began in the late 1980s, and its interventions for illness and optimisation of life have shown increasing benefits and acceptance by different patients.
In 2022, the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention announced a total prevalence of thyroid-related diseases of up to 20% in China. Thyroid patients are susceptible to emotional problems and even psychological disorders after illness due to a variety of factors such as age, gender, and family genetics. Due to the versatility and complexity of thyroid disorders, emotional disturbances triggered by medications or the condition can be helped to alleviate some of the patient's psychological torment through the painless intervention of music therapy. Music therapy also plays an active role in oncology, cardiology, nephrology, cardiothoracic surgery, psychiatric rehabilitation and clinical psychology to help patients alleviate negative psychology such as depression and anxiety. This article attempts to analyse the role of music therapy as a positive intervention in thyroid disorders from a music therapy perspective. The article describes the possibility and necessity of combining music therapy with medication in the treatment of thyroid disorders, in the hope that it will provide help in alleviating the psychological disorders and suffering of thyroid patients.
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