Patient Care Services
CMTER has established an optimum healing environment in Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth and  is committed to provide music therapy as a complementary health care method with a Salutogenic focus on the physical, mental, social and spiritual health. Music therapy services are integrated along-side main stream medicine to promote healing and increase the resilience and sense of coherence to overcome disease paving the foundation for better health in future.
Music therapy services with a Salutogenic focus are imparted by qualified music therapists to adult and pediatric in-patients and out-patients registered with the departments of Medicine, ICU, catheterization labs, ICU waiting area, operation theatres and labour rooms to mention a few. The faculty of CMTER work regularly all through the week from 9 to 4 pm offering OPD music therapy consultations and also work bed-side. Around 12000 patients have been benefited by music therapy services since the inception of the center.Â
Some of the patient care outcomes recorded with music therapy services areÂ
- Reduction of anxiety and pain
- Stabilizing physiological measures
- Improvement in peak flow expiratory rate
- Regularization of breathing patterns,
- Improvement in onset of sleep
- Regulation of emotions
- Reduction of crying spells
- Reduction of depressive symptoms
- Enhance self-expression,
- Improvement in cognitive abilities and
- Improvement in  communication and self-esteem.Â
Music therapy services were also rendered to the care takers in the ICU waiting area
Total number of music therapy consultancies offered
S.No | Year | Male | Â Female | TG | Total |
1 | 2010 | 13 | 4 | – | 17 |
2 | 2011 | 14 | 38 | – | 97 |
3 | 2012 | 80 | 69 | 6 | 149 |
4 | 2013 | 106 | 106 | 1 | 213 |
5 | 2014 | 291 | 209 | 47 | 547 |
6 | 2015 | 1324 | 1165 | 47 | 2536 |
7 | 2016 | 1221 | 1480 | – | 2701 |
8 | 2017 | 977 | 1489 | 24 | 2490 |
9 | 2018 | 1268 | 1335 | 45 | 2448 |
10 | 2019 (uptoMarch) | 411 | 256 | – | Â 677 |
Total | Â | Â | Â | Â | 11875 |