Singing Song helps ease burden of rehabilitation

BEIJING - Unlike doctors, who carry stethoscopes, wheelchair-bound Song Yichuan treats his patients with a guitar, a piano and several microphones.

Surrounded by five others, four of whom are also sitting in wheelchairs, 34-year-old Song chooses a soothing tune to start his therapy, encouraging his patients to sing as if in a karaoke session.

"They need to strengthen their diaphragm and singing can help," he says.