Tremble Clefs

Whether a confident or closet singer, breaking into song has more benefits than meets the ear. Aside from boosting your mood and confidence, music is clinically proven to reduce your brain’s perception of pain, reduce blood pressure, is extremely effective in memory recall and can regulate heart and respiratory rates, according to the Center for Music Therapy in Texas. 

The Tremble Clefs, sponsored by the National Parkinson Foundation, employ music as therapy. 

Music therapy is a “tool of great power…because of its unique capacity to organize or reorganize cerebral function when it has been damaged,” said Professor of Neurology Oliver Sacks. Music therapy helps patients cognitively, and physically by using their voices and moving their bodies. New research shows that exercise, social stimulation and singing can help postpone Parkinson symptoms even more effectively than early diagnosis and medication. 

Less than a dozen Tremble Clefs groups exist in the nation, with one in Orange County, free to those with Parkinson’s.