When former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords was shot in the head in 2011, her doctors used every available tool to help her regain the ability to move and speak. Alongside speech and physical therapy, Giffords began relearning the French horn, an instrument she had played as a teenager. Music therapy helped heal the shattered connections in Giffords’s brain—a tool that she has credited with helping her reclaim her ability to speak. Read on >