- The day, organized by the health group at the Ateneo Mercantil, included a music therapy session, a round table on heart care and a concert by Les veus de la memoria, the AFAV choir.
- The exhibition of the first arrhythmic metronome in history, built with the rhythm of a patient's sick heart, has also been inaugurated to raise awareness about risk factors, which will remain at the Athenaeum until January 7, 2024.
- Music and health, protagonists of Ribera's Christmas greetings
The health group Ribera has presented today in Valencia Ritmos de Vida, the campaign that unites music and health to prevent heart diseases. After visiting five of the group's main hospitals in Spain - the university hospitals of Torrejón (Madrid) and Vinalopó (Elche), the Denia hospital, Ribera Hospital de Molina (Murcia) and the Ribera Povisa hospital (Vigo) -, the campaign arrives in Valencia where the group has just invested in its first hospital in the capital of the Valencian Community, IMSKE, specialized in Traumatology, Rehabilitation and sports medicine.
The campaign has been presented in the context of a day organized to raise awareness about cardiovascular pathologies and the predominant risk factors and, at the same time, to demonstrate the benefits of music on health, and how music therapy, singing, listening to music live or playing an instrument have proven health benefits. The event began with the inauguration by the CEO of the Ribera group, Elisa Tarazona, who recalled that cardiovascular diseases are the main cause of death in the world and that in Spain alone 350 people die every day for this reason. "There are risk factors associated with these pathologies that we can prevent and correct, and with this campaign we seek to involve citizens in their own self-care, remembering the importance of healthy lifestyle habits and the control of indicators that can harm the health of the patient. heart”, he assured.
Next, two music therapists who carry out workshops in different clinical services of Ribera group centers, Ana Alegre and Isabel Bellver, have organized a joint therapy sample with the attendees. Its objective: to demonstrate that music has positive effects on the cognitive, communicative, physical, psychological and sensitive levels of patients. Among others, it has been shown to help reduce blood pressure and heart rate, and this has a direct effect on stress, both in patients and the healthy population. And that is why the Ribera group has an extensive music therapy program, which covers different actions and services in its centers. In fact, it is a therapeutic tool that is becoming increasingly important in clinical practice, because it influences the well-being of patients.
At the end of this brief sample of a music therapy session, a round table on “Heart care at all stages of our life” began, moderated by Vicente Roig, coordinator of the Heart Area of the Ribera health group, in which they participated the heads of the Cardiology Service of the Vinalopó University Hospital and the Denia Hospital, doctors Carlos de Diego and Alfonso Valle, and also the coordinator of the Electrophysiology and Arrhythmias Unit of the University Hospital of Vinalopo, Luis González. In addition to explaining the importance of healthy habits and remembering the risk factors that cause the majority of cardiovascular events, the speakers explained how the networking of the Heart Area of the Ribera group works, with the best specialists from four of its hospitals to provide the most complete and highest quality care to patients, regardless of their reference health center.
After the round table, the Director of Communication, Marketing and CSR of the Ribera group, Angélica Alarcón, explained the origin and creative development of the Ritmos de Vida campaign, in collaboration with the Maart agency, and which included the design and construction of the first arrhythmic metronome in History, based on the sick heart of Adrián, a patient with arrhythmias. Carmen de Rosa, president of the Ateneo, was responsible for closing an event, which was attended by more than a hundred people. During her intervention, De Rosa highlighted the importance of this type of campaigns for the promotion of healthy habits and the prevention of diseases such as cardiovascular diseases. “And all this, with the help of health professionals from the Ribera group, who have explained to us the importance of heart care at all stages of life, and also the benefits of music for health,” she assured.
The day concluded with the performance of “Les veus de la memoria”, the choir of the Association of Relatives of Alzheimer's Patients (AFAV), which delighted the attendees with a part of its repertoire, demonstrating, once again, how music helps patients with very diverse pathologies.
Music, the protagonist of Ribera's Christmas greeting
The World Health Organization (WHO) assures that listening to music helps control blood glucose levels and blood pressure, improves the immune system, attention, memory and stress control and reduces anxiety and insomnia. . These are some of the benefits that the professionals of the Ribera health group have also already contrasted with patients, within the music and health program that is underway in many of its hospitals and which this year is the protagonist of itsChristmas card.
At the Ribera healthcare group, music finds its voice in the health and well-being of patients and professionals. To accompany them, make them remember, dream and smile. His wish is that music continues to unite and connect people. And may its universal language help care and heal, on the physical plane and also on the emotional level.
Website Rhythms of Life.
