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Chronic Pain
Listening To Music Can Help Reduce Chronic Pain
Date: 12/06/06
There aren't many people who dont appreciate a good tune and enjoy humming along to the radio. Now research published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing has shown that listening to music can not only lift our spirits, but also reduce pain.
The study showed that listening to music can reduce chronic pain by up to 21 per cent and depression by up to 25 per cent. It can also make people feel more in control of their pain and less disabled by their condition.
Music therapy: Name that tune
Researchers carried out a controlled clinical trial with 60 people, dividing them into two music groups and a control group.
They found that people who listened to music for an hour every day for a week reported improved physical and psychological symptoms compared to the control group.
The US participants, who had an average age of 50, were recruited from pain and chiropractic clinics in Ohio. They had been suffering from a range of painful conditions, including osteoarthritis, disc problems and rheumatoid arthritis, for an average of six-and-a-half years.
Ninety per cent said the pain affected more than one part of their body and 95 per cent said it was continuous. Before the music study, participants reported that their usual pain averaged just under six on a zero-to-ten pain scale and their worst pain exceeded nine out of ten.
The people who took part in the music groups listened to music on a headset for an hour a day and everyone who took part, including the control group, kept a pain diary explained nurse researcher Dr Sandra L Siedlecki from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio.
Forty people were assigned to the two music groups and the other 20 formed the control group.
The first group were invited to choose their own favourite music and this included everything from pop and rock to slow and melodious tunes and nature sounds traditionally used to promote sleep or relaxation.
The second group chose from five relaxing tapes selected by us. These featured piano, jazz, orchestra, harp and synthesizer and had been used in previous pain studies by co-author Professor Marion Good from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University, Ohio.
Music therapy: Hitting the right note
The music groups reported that their pain had fallen by between 12 and 21 per cent, when measured by two different pain measurement scales. The control group reported that pain increased by between one and two per cent.
People in the music groups reported 19 to 25 per cent less depression than the control group.
The music groups reported feeling nine to 18 per cent less disabled than those who hadnt listened to music and said they had between five and eight per cent more power over their pain than the control group.
Our results show that listening to music had a statistically significant effect on the two experimental groups, reducing pain, depression and disability and increasing feelings of power says Dr Siedlecki.
There were some small differences between the two music groups, but they both showed consistent improvements in each category when compared to the control group.
Non-malignant pain remains a major health problem and sufferers continue to report high levels of unrelieved pain despite using medication. So anything that can provide relief is to be welcomed.
The report concludes that, Nurses can teach patients how to use music to enhance the effects of analgesics, decrease pain, depression and disability, and promote feelings of power.
Music therapy: Play it again
Listening to music has already been shown to promote a number of positive benefits and this research adds to the growing body of evidence that it has an important role to play in modern healthcare adds co-author Professor Marion Good.
Previous research by Professor Good and Hui-Ling Lai, published in 2005, showed that listening to 45 minutes of soft music before bedtime can improve sleep by more than a third.
The study examined 60 older people in Taiwan who had difficulty sleeping. The group was split into two; one group was given a choice of 45-minute sedative music audiotapes to play at bedtime for three weeks.
The control group were encouraged not to listen to music at bedtime.
The music group reported significantly better sleep quality than the control, including longer sleep duration, greater sleep efficiency, less sleep disturbance and less daytime dysfunction.
Interestingly, sleep improved weekly, suggesting that the effect of the music was cumulative.
Sources:
Journal of Advanced Nursing, Vol 54 (5), 553562,
2006 & 49 (3), 234244, 2005
Listening to music can reduce chronic pain and depression by up to a quarter Journal of Advanced Nursing, press release 24 May 2006 Music can reduce chronic pain British Nursing News, 29 May 2006 Melanoma deaths in men soar Cancer Research UK press release, 15 May 2006
Back to topThe study showed that listening to music can reduce chronic pain by up to 21 per cent and depression by up to 25 per cent. It can also make people feel more in control of their pain and less disabled by their condition.
Music therapy: Name that tune
Researchers carried out a controlled clinical trial with 60 people, dividing them into two music groups and a control group.
They found that people who listened to music for an hour every day for a week reported improved physical and psychological symptoms compared to the control group.
The US participants, who had an average age of 50, were recruited from pain and chiropractic clinics in Ohio. They had been suffering from a range of painful conditions, including osteoarthritis, disc problems and rheumatoid arthritis, for an average of six-and-a-half years.
Ninety per cent said the pain affected more than one part of their body and 95 per cent said it was continuous. Before the music study, participants reported that their usual pain averaged just under six on a zero-to-ten pain scale and their worst pain exceeded nine out of ten.
The people who took part in the music groups listened to music on a headset for an hour a day and everyone who took part, including the control group, kept a pain diary explained nurse researcher Dr Sandra L Siedlecki from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio.
Forty people were assigned to the two music groups and the other 20 formed the control group.
The first group were invited to choose their own favourite music and this included everything from pop and rock to slow and melodious tunes and nature sounds traditionally used to promote sleep or relaxation.
The second group chose from five relaxing tapes selected by us. These featured piano, jazz, orchestra, harp and synthesizer and had been used in previous pain studies by co-author Professor Marion Good from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University, Ohio.
Music therapy: Hitting the right note
The music groups reported that their pain had fallen by between 12 and 21 per cent, when measured by two different pain measurement scales. The control group reported that pain increased by between one and two per cent.
People in the music groups reported 19 to 25 per cent less depression than the control group.
The music groups reported feeling nine to 18 per cent less disabled than those who hadnt listened to music and said they had between five and eight per cent more power over their pain than the control group.
Our results show that listening to music had a statistically significant effect on the two experimental groups, reducing pain, depression and disability and increasing feelings of power says Dr Siedlecki.
There were some small differences between the two music groups, but they both showed consistent improvements in each category when compared to the control group.
Non-malignant pain remains a major health problem and sufferers continue to report high levels of unrelieved pain despite using medication. So anything that can provide relief is to be welcomed.
The report concludes that, Nurses can teach patients how to use music to enhance the effects of analgesics, decrease pain, depression and disability, and promote feelings of power.
Music therapy: Play it again
Listening to music has already been shown to promote a number of positive benefits and this research adds to the growing body of evidence that it has an important role to play in modern healthcare adds co-author Professor Marion Good.
Previous research by Professor Good and Hui-Ling Lai, published in 2005, showed that listening to 45 minutes of soft music before bedtime can improve sleep by more than a third.
The study examined 60 older people in Taiwan who had difficulty sleeping. The group was split into two; one group was given a choice of 45-minute sedative music audiotapes to play at bedtime for three weeks.
The control group were encouraged not to listen to music at bedtime.
The music group reported significantly better sleep quality than the control, including longer sleep duration, greater sleep efficiency, less sleep disturbance and less daytime dysfunction.
Interestingly, sleep improved weekly, suggesting that the effect of the music was cumulative.
Sources:
Journal of Advanced Nursing, Vol 54 (5), 553562,
2006 & 49 (3), 234244, 2005
Listening to music can reduce chronic pain and depression by up to a quarter Journal of Advanced Nursing, press release 24 May 2006 Music can reduce chronic pain British Nursing News, 29 May 2006 Melanoma deaths in men soar Cancer Research UK press release, 15 May 2006
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