[Music therapy and rehabilitative medicine: current status and future developments]

Music and music therapy are increasingly used in the context of rehabilitation medicine. By rehabilitation medicine we mean a multidisciplinary approach aimed at intervening on the limitations of motor, cognitive and emotional functions caused by degenerative and non-degenerative pathologies. These are personalised rehabilitation programmes aimed at maintaining and/or reacquiring functions and consequently a social and/or working role.Rehabilitation medicine can also include psychological and relational interventions to support the person. The use of sound and music can therefore be a decisive resource in this context and the literature offers interesting ideas in this sense.