App Shopper: Art Helps Healing App (Healthcare & Fitness)

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Apr 05 '10	New App: Free, v1.0

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Art Helps Healing App

iOS iPhone

Relax, destress, meditate and enjoy your "Art Helps Healing" experience as you wait for your doctor's appointment, dialysis, test results, teeth cleaning or even your job interview, educational test or metro commute.

Academic and clinical research shows that a person's stress, anxiety and blood pressure can be reduced by viewing scenes of nature and listening to calming and therapeutic music. ("Healing Spaces: Elements of Environmental Design That Make an Impact on Health” by M. Schweitzer, L. Gilpin, and S. Frampton, The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 2004)

"Art Helps Healing" combines 365 healing photography images and calming music to create a therapeutic experience for app users. Additional functionality includes:

· Sending photos by email

· Using photos as wallpaper

· Setting photos for contacts

· Viewing images as automated slideshow or

· Viewing images for a longer length of time

This app is ideal in medical and health care environments for patients, caregivers, children, hospital staff and clinicians.

Healthcare Art Consulting LLC, EDAC Advocate Firm, is an art consulting firm specializing in providing artistic solutions, health care marketing services, and design solutions for hospitals, health care systems and medical facilities nation-wide. Contact us to learn more about "Art Helps Healing" and "iart tour", free iphone app featuring health care facility tours.

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Music in Art Helps Healing app by artist Kevin MacLeod.