MusiCorps: Helping Wounded Warriors Play Music and Recover Their Lives

In 2007 Arthur Bloom was invited to visit a soldier recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The soldier, a drummer who had lost his leg to a roadside bomb, was concerned about whether he would ever be able to play the drums again.
Bloom, a Juilliard- and Yale-trained composer and pianist, didn’t have any previous experience with wounded service members. However, during this initial visit to Walter Reed Bloom promised to do whatever it took to help the soldier play again.
Stepping back from the situation, Bloom recognized that the need was great, with Walter Reed overflowing with injured service members. He also saw that the injured had very little to do at Walter Reed outside of their medical appointments during recoveries that could last for years. Bloom quickly realized how he might assist with the growing crisis of thousands of severely wounded service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
With MusiCorps, disabilities disappear and severely injured veterans soar, reaching the highest levels of musical achievement.
He formed MusiCorps and committed to help any injured veteran who wished to learn or relearn an instrument as a core part of their rehabilitation, regardless of whether they played music before, and in the musical genre of the soldier’s choice: classical, metal, country or rock. And the program took off!
The rigorous MusiCorps program has helped countless wounded warriors learn or relearn how to play an instrument as a core part of their rehabil...

Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - May 25, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Man of the Month Source Type: blogs