Drumming for Therapy!

Thank you for visiting our site to learn more about how you can incorporate community drumming into your repertoire of therapeutic recreation activities. On this page you will find links to websites and articles about drumming for therapy, as well as internal links to products we offer to help get you or to build your therapeutic or recreational drumming program. Please contact us with comments or questions.

What is Drum Therapy?
Check out these links for some informative academic, professional, and newspaper articles about drum therapy in a variety of settings. You'll quickly see the benefits!

• Drum therapy keeps patients on the (heart)beat
• Complementary Therapy for Addiction: 'Drumming Out Drugs'
• Drumming to the rhythms of life
• Composite effects of group drumming music therapy on modulation of euroendocrine-immune parameters in normal subjects
• African drumming and psychiatric rehabilitation
• Should Drums be Sold in Pharmacies?
• Fortune 500 Tunes Into Bang-the-Drum Therapy
• Drumming technique for assertiveness and anger management in the short-term psychiatric setting for adult and adolescent survivors of trauma
• Drumming and Improvisation with Adult Male Sexual Offenders
• A real `hands on' education
• Drums, Not Drugs
• Drumming on the Edge of Leadership: Hand Drumming and Leadership Skills for the New Millennium
• Drum Therapy: Excerpt from The Shamanic Drum by Michael Drake
  

Are There Helpful Resources on the Internet?
We are continually expanding our list of internet resources to help those interested in drum therapy. Feel free to contact us if you would like to add to the list below!

• Therapeutic Recreation Directory - www.recreationtherapy.com/tx/txdance.htm
• Drumming Therapy: Healing through sound and rhythm - www.benschwarcz.com/id33.htm
• Drums Not Drugs: Substance abuse prevention programs for youth - www.bghealth.org/drums_not_drugs.htm