GREAT IDEA: 23-year music collection donated to hospital for music therapy

What can a guy do with 4,000 CDs? Help someone heal, says music therapist Gemma Isaac.

That’s what happened Tuesday when a former national music buyer for the now-defunct retailer A&B Sound, Vancouver’s Brian Thompson, packed up his massive collection spanning 23 years of music from 1990 and sent it to Vancouver General Hospital where Isaac will use them in her work.

“We know from evidence-based research that patents who listen to preferred music have reduced anxiety and distraction from pain,” said Isaac from her office on BC Professional Firefighters’ Burn, Plastic and Trauma Unit.

“Music really helps not just the physical healing, but it also supports the emotional and spiritual healing of someone suffering from trauma. It’s simple. It’s effective and there are no side-effects that drugs can have.”

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