Why Medicine Needs Art | Jill Sonke | TEDxUF

What do the arts have to do with medicine? Dancer and medical researcher Jill Sonke explores the important relationship between creative expression and health for patients with serious medical illness.



Jill Sonke is a dancer and a researcher. She is the director of the University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine, and Assistant Director of the UF Health Shands Arts in Medicine program. Throughout her career she has sought to explore the relationships between creativity, meaning, and health through programs that bring the arts to hospitals, to help people living with challenges such as Sickle Cell and Parkinson’s diseases.

[gregoikonomakou]

This is one of the most interesting and beautiful lectures I have ever watched... Congratulations! I am a doctor, I am an artist but... I am a patient too, suffering from MS. I have to confess from my heart, that nothing helped me more than Art therapy in my life until now... Neuroplasticity thrives 🌷

[moonchart]

This feels SO relevant now since the pandemic. Hospital workers need artists as well. The entire hospital environment

[suzanneriver]

Jill, what a fabulous talk!  Listening to your story about the past twenty years of continuing to work with your creativity and helping to grow Arts in Medicine into viable and quantifiable applications in Shands and other hospitals just made me so happy.  Thank you for your decades of dedication, your beautiful and gentle way of being and inspiring others to open up to their creativity.  When I was a little girl I learned to dig my fingernail into my thumb and concentrate on that 'feeling' so I wouldn't feel the needle stick when receiving a shot or having my blood drawn. The way focusing on 'art' decreases a patient's pain and anxiety is very real.  

 Your movement dance program is amazing....and the music in the ER program is exciting.  Congratulations to you and all your artists!

[barbjephson]

This is what I experience when I have used my ballet exercises to get to the place where my balance is not affected....I am a Stroke Survivor and this has helped me immeasurably and is able to continue is speaking the truth....where I am concerned...based on my experiences at this stage of development.

[francoisehelenepoetry]

This is very inspirational and talks about such an important topic. The arts are very powerful and help us stay healthy

[deniserobinson]

When my son was on life support in the ICU because of a stroke, I played music by his favorites... Bob Marley, Mozart and Metallica. He emerged from the induced coma singing : Marley's :three little birds"...Art heals

[fatimamatar]

Thank you for being so inspiring Jill, I absolutely loved your initiative and the beautiful, calm, relaxed delivery of your talk... just lovely, thank you x

[pumpkindancer]

You saw Don & I dance across Jill Sonke's stage...making her point! I couldn't say it better! And, I'm the professional writer...

[waynemccormack]

Wow!  What amazing work you are doing, Jill.  Thanks for sharing your story, and for all you do to help our patients.  It's great to be affiliated with you via the UF Clinical & Translational Science Institute.

[pumpkindancer]

Jill
I am dancing for my life...as your words explain succinctly...with panache & passion; from your mind & heart.  I am, again,  PROUD of our "Kids Rock"(ford).
Xo
This is no dress rehearsal,
Judy

[robertlee]

If you tie medical applications to proposals, funding can be fast tracked. This goes for a lot of fields.

[finbarmanley]

time if its going tio happen its the presant now and it will come instant

[finbarmanley]

where child is born with nop hands sum times the hands are in key poistion like kidddeys as out line bodioe parts

[finbarmanley]

parkinson is fully restored in next condition bioma when radiationm rests in egg state this could be reffer to mothers crouch and instigate the less radation now to ease symptoms also healtheer if subject is dead it would have occured while alive

[finbarmanley]

bioma is stable radion but still shake sum times tremmers die down eventiualy a clock countinmg fgor ward and back wards and a c, lopck when the clock gets to zero

[silkydevil]

What was the two chemicals our brain releases again?