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For people who have lived through a serious accident, rehabilitation can be slow, painful, and tiring. Rehabilitation therapists often turn to music making as a way to help their patients work longer, harder, and keep their spirits up.

Eighteen-year-old Melissa Wilson of Georgia survived a driving accident, when a dump truck hit her car. Much of Wilson�s left side was shattered, including her hip, leg, pelvis, and foot.

�She�s in a lot of pain,� says Beth Collier, a music therapist at Children�s Healthcare of Atlanta, Georgia. �She needed to strengthen her upper body, because she is going to be using a wheelchair for quite a while.�

To regain her strength, Wilson started working out by playing the drums and other percussion instruments. Collier asks Wilson to play a tambourine in positions over her head, or to her side. Of course, Wilson could work out in a gym, but playing music is far more fun, and it distracts her from the pain.

�I can move the drum to work her left hand, and move it up higher and higher and higher, and she�s worked out that hand and not even thinking twice about it,� Collier explains. �It�s like a vacation from a bad situation,� agrees Wilson.

Source: As seen in Making Music Magazine's September/October 2006 issue.
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