"64-year-old Pamela Mansfield sways her feet to the rhythm of George Jones' "She Thinks I Still Care." Mansfield is still recovering much of her mobility after a recent neck surgery, but she finds a way to move to the music floating from a record player that was wheeled into her room. "Seems to be the worst part is the stiffness in my ankles and the no feeling in the hands," she says. "But music makes everything better.""
"He collaborates with a team of volunteers who wheel the player on a cart to patients' rooms, along with a selection of records in their favorite genres. "I think of this record player as a time machine," he said. "You know, something starts spinning an old, familiar song on a record player and now you're back at home, you're out of the hospital, you're with your family, you're with your loved ones.""
ATX-VINyL brings portable record players and curated vinyl selections to bedside patients at Dell Seton Medical Center. Dr. Tyler Jorgensen developed the program with volunteers who wheel a cart containing a record player and genre-specific records to patients' rooms. Patients request country, jazz, R&B, holiday music and classic rock, and the music often evokes memories of home and family. Music helps patients move, eases stiffness and numbness complaints, improves mood, and provides comfort during recovery from surgery and during serious diagnoses and treatments. The program began about three years ago during a palliative care fellowship.
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