{"id":3429,"date":"2025-09-29T14:13:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/29\/songs-by-elvis-presley-and-the-beatles-could-help-beat-lung-disease\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T14:13:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:13:32","slug":"songs-by-elvis-presley-and-the-beatles-could-help-beat-lung-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/29\/songs-by-elvis-presley-and-the-beatles-could-help-beat-lung-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs by Elvis Presley and The Beatles could help beat lung disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-09-29 14:13:30<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Belting out tunes by Elvis Presley and The Beatles may help ease the pain of lung disease.<BR><br \/>\nA world-first study led by Monash University in Melbourne and the University of Cambridge found that online group singing therapy boosted quality of life for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and interstitial lung disease (ILD).<BR><br \/>\nThe trial, involving 101 patients across Australia, asked half the group to take part in a 12-week \u201cSinfonia\u201d singing programme. <BR><br \/>\nParticipants joined 90-minute online sessions, belting out classics like Can\u2019t Help Falling in Love, Let It Be, and wartime anthem Pack Up Your Troubles. The other half received only standard treatment.<BR><br \/>\nThe results, presented at the European Respiratory Society Congress in Amsterdam, showed striking benefits. <BR><br \/>\nPatients in the singing group scored 7.4 points higher on quality-of-life surveys, with those who attended at least eight sessions scoring 11 points higher \u2013 a difference described as \u201cclinically important.\u201d<BR><br \/>\nProfessor Natasha Smallwood of Monash University said: \u201cChronic breathlessness is a common and highly distressing symptom for people with COPD and ILD, yet there is a lack of safe, effective, and acceptable treatment options. Compared to usual care, taking part in the Sinfonia programme led to improved quality of life \u2013 especially for those who attended most of the sessions.\u201d<BR><br \/>\nShe added that the benefits may come from \u201cbetter control of breathing, social connection, or mood improvements.\u201d<BR><br \/>\nDr Apostolos Bossios, of the European Respiratory Society, called the results a \u201cgrowing body of evidence\u201d that non-medication approaches can help. Meanwhile, Sarah Sleet, CEO of Asthma and Lung UK, said singing\u2019s breath control and endorphin release make the findings unsurprising. \u201cIf you think singing might help you, you can join an Asthma and Lung UK singing group,\u201d she added.<BR><br \/>\nThe researchers concluded that for patients battling long-term lung disease, a sing-along might be just what the doctor ordered.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-09-29 14:13:30 Belting out tunes by Elvis Presley and The Beatles may help ease the pain of lung disease. A world-first study led by Monash University in Melbourne and the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3431,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429\/revisions\/3431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}