The Efficacy of Binaural Beats

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It is common knowledge that listening to music can be a very enjoyable experience, but what is not as well known is that listening to or playing music can actually boost endorphin levels (Turner 1). Modern science has made great strides in the field of Sound Therapy in recent history, and although Music has even been used to aid in the recovery of Surgery patients, there is a more effective method of Sound Therapy that has been largely overlooked (Murray 1). Known as Binaural Beats, this so called “digital drug” presents debatably positive new methods for rehabilitation and therapy; with the ability to alter brainwaves and synchronize neural frequency patterns, the substantial power of these Binaural Beats has evoked controversy as allegedly deleterious effects of these sound waves are examined (Kommando 2). Despite certain movements that have cast aspersions on the Binaural beat technology, they are still a viable, scientifically proven phenomenon; additionally, because the only materials necessary for binaural beat entrainment are a pair of headphones and source material such as a CD or computer program, binaural beat technology is very cost efficient. Summarily, Binaural Beats should be implemented as a means of cost efficient Sound Therapy in hospitals as a supplement to existing treatments in order to augment expediency, and any at possibly deleterious consequences are fear-mongering and fallacious.

Although discovered in 1839, Binaural Beats are still a relatively unknown concept to most doctors of rehabilitation or therapy (Manley 1) .The term Binaural Beats is given to the phenomenon in which two tones of very slightly differing frequencies are presented to a subject wearing headphones, the effect of the similar tone...

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