Prof. Dr. med. Gerassimowitsch

Mu­sic is one of the old­est remedies; it is an old com­pan­ion to cura­tive treat­ments. As long ago as 600 years BC, Pythagoras be­lieved that mu­sic pos­sessed far greater heal­ing pow­ers than other remedies, emphasizing the uni­ver­sal­ity of mu­sic in heal­ing of both body and soul. Pythagoras’s claim was sub­stan­ti­ated by Aristotle: he claimed that man’s pur­suit of beauty was not just a matter of whim, but be­longed to the in­dis­pen­sa­ble at­trib­utes of hu­man ex­is­tence.

Ibn Sina did not only study the ef­fects of the mu­sic on the sick, but re­searched eve­ry as­pect of this phe­nome­non, in­clud­ing its ef­fect on healthy peo­ple. This opened up the pos­si­bil­ity of us­ing the mu­sic as one of the most pow­er­ful pre­ventative remedies against mental illnesses.

Mu­sic has a non-spe­cific, stimu­lat­ing, sympatholytic and seda­tive ef­fect on the or­gan­ism (G. Schipulin, Kohler et al). How­ever, Peter Hübner’s mu­sic is a new mu­si­cal phe­nome­non. The com­pli­cated char­ac­ter of the sound, its reso­nance, and other char­ac­ter­is­tics proba­bly have a very strong in­flu­ence on the or­gan­ism. That is the rea­son why in the last 6 years, in many coun­tries of the world, Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^® has suc­cess­fully es­tab­lished it­self both as a part of com­plex treat­ment and also as an in­de­pend­ent method in vari­ous medi­cal fields: in neu­rol­ogy, car­di­ol­ogy, pul­monol­ogy, pre and post-natal medi­cine, geri­at­rics, etc.

For two years, Peter Hübner’s Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^® has been suc­cess­fully used in sev­eral hos­pi­tals in Bela­rus as a cura­tive treat­ment with­out drugs: in obstetrics and gy­ne­col­ogy, in car­di­ol­ogy, in pe­di­at­rics, in en­do­cri­nol­ogy, re­sus­ci­ta­tion, etc. Here, I would like to re­port on some as­pects of us­ing Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^® in obstetrics and gynecology.

In gy­ne­col­ogy, we have ex­plored this method as the main method in pre-op­era­tive prepa­ra­tion for rou­tine myomectomies, and it is in use to­day.

For com­pari­son there was a con­trol group compris­ing women who re­ceived a seda­tive dur­ing the pre-op­era­tive prepa­ra­tions.

All women from the first and sec­ond group were roughly the same age. In the case of all women, the cor­ti­sol level in the blood was de­ter­mined on the day of ad­mis­sion, the day of the op­era­tion and 10-12 days af­ter the op­era­tion.

This hor­mone was meas­ured be­cause it is an in­di­ca­tor for stress situa­tions (in this case, the op­era­tion it­self gave rise to such a stress situa­tion). As the data col­lected shows, the cor­ti­sol level in both groups is very high at the be­gin­ning: 995 nmol/l.

In the Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^® group (in the fol­low­ing often re­ferred to as MRT-Mu­sic^® group), a sharp fall in the level of this hor­mone (by 39%) was re­corded af­ter the mu­sic had been used, and this fall can be seen as re­sult­ing from the pre-op­era­tive prepa­ra­tion us­ing Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^®.

In con­trast, the cor­ti­sol level in the con­trol group fell only very slightly (by 9.2%). Here, the pre-op­era­tive prepa­ra­tion had been car­ried out us­ing a con­ven­tional seda­tive ther­apy with drugs.

In the time fol­low­ing the op­era­tion, Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^® was in­cluded in the first 10-12 days’ treat­ment of the first group. In the con­trol group con­ven­tional treat­ment meth­ods were ap­plied, that is, with­out Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic.

Meas­ure­ment of the cor­ti­sol level on the 12th day fol­low­ing the op­era­tion showed a fall by a fac­tor of 2.4 in the MRT-Mu­sic^® group, whilst in the con­trol group it had only fallen by a fac­tor of 1.7. Fur­ther­more, the women in the first group re­ported, from a sub­jec­tive point of view, nor­mali­za­tion of their sleep and a marked im­prove­ment in mood, their blood pres­sure be­came nor­mal and their need for pain re­liev­ing me­di­ca­tion clearly fell.

Ad­di­tion­ally, the num­ber of cases of ane­mia in the MRT-Mu­sic^® group was 15% lower than in the con­trol group. This shows us that, dur­ing the post-op­era­tive pe­riod, things went far bet­ter for the MRT-Mu­sic^® group than for the con­trol group.

As­sess­ment of the emo­tional-per­sonal sphere of the pa­tients, car­ried out with the help of the Min­ne­sota Mul­ti­pha­sic Per­son­al­ity Index (MMPI), clearly showed that ini­tial MMPI pro­files re­vealed sig­nifi­cant in­di­vid­ual dif­fer­ences for the female pa­tients in terms of the norm val­ues – right up to clear psy­cho­pathic dis­or­ders, where the level of the in­di­vid­ual val­ues some­times reached 90 t-points. In the MRT-Mu­sic^® group, an im­prove­ment in the men­tal state was reg­is­tered at 88.9%, de­te­rio­ra­tion at 11.1%. In the con­trol group the cor­re­spond­ing val­ues were 10% and 20%. The en­tire av­er­age MMPI pro­file af­ter treat­ment with Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^® never ex­ceeded a read­ing of 50-55 t-points, which in­di­cates a com­plete nor­mali­za­tion of the men­tal func­tions.

As such, Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^® is a good and ef­fec­tive method with­out the use of drugs for pre­par­ing pa­tients for sur­gery, as well as be­ing of great as­sis­tance in the post-op­era­tive phase. It helps to re­duce the stress status prior to sur­gery and ensures far bet­ter pro­gress in the post-op­era­tive phase.