Upbeat Music Therapy

Wendy Krueger, director of Up Beat Music Therapy and a board-certified music therapist, recalls working with a man at an adult day program in Brookline. The man’s Parkinson’s disease made him unable to control his legs; he would try to walk across a room and get stuck. “It was almost as if his feet were glued to the ground,” Krueger says. But the man loved music. “We decided that we would use one song to get [him] moving.” He chose “When the Saints Go Marching In,” and within seconds of hearing it, “he would be on his feet to get moving, and to the rhythm of the song,” Krueger sa

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