It is already known that music helps relieve pain, many scientific studies prove this. Listening to moving music is better at relieving pain, according to a study published today.
Researchers from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, conducted a study on emotional responses to favorite, relaxing music. And according to the research results, they found that favorite music performed better than relaxing music in reducing pain discomfort, and they also found that listening to moving music was better at relieving pain.
Introduction :
The hypoalgesic effect of music has long been established. However, the characteristics of music which are important for reducing pain have not been well-studied. Some research has compared subject-selected preferred music to unfamiliar music selected by researchers, and has typically found a superior effect from preferred music. In this study, we sought to discover what aspects of listeners' relationship with their preferred music was important in producing a hypoalgesic effect.
Methods :
We conducted a thermal pain and music listening experiment with 63 participants (14 male, 49 female, mean age = 21.3), in which music excerpts were paired with thermal stimulations. Pain ratings of intensity and unpleasantness, as well as emotional response variables, were rated on visual analog scales. We also conducted brief structured interviews about participants' favorite music, on which we conducted thematic content analysis. Themes and emotion variables were analyzed for their effects on pain ratings.
Results :
We first replicated the finding that favorite music outperforms experimenter-selected relaxing music in reducing pain unpleasantness (MD = −7.25, p < 0.001) and that the difference in hypoalgesia was partially mediated by an increase in musical chills (ab = −2.83, p < 0.01). We then conducted a theme analysis on the interview transcripts and produced four themes relating to emotional experience: moving/bittersweet, calming/relaxing, happy/cheerful, and energizing/activating. We found suggestive evidence that moving/bittersweet favorite music reduces pain unpleasantness through increased music pleasantness (ab = −5.48, p < 0.001) and more musical chills (ab = −0.57, p = 0.004).
“We can approximate that favourite music reduced pain by about one point on a 10-point scale, which is at least as strong as an over-the-counter painkiller like Advil [ibuprofen] under the same conditions. Moving music may have an even stronger effect,” Darius Valevicius, one of the researchers, says about the study.
Frankly, I already knew that listening to music helps relieve pain because listening to music is very good for me when I am stressed, unhappy and in any pain. It's usually good for me to listen to my favorite songs.
It was exciting to see from the above research that favorite music performed better than relaxing music in reducing pain discomfort and that moving music was better at relieving pain. Frankly, it was interesting to see something that was good for me and that I was already doing, in a scientific research. That's why I love seeing this kind of research, and I look at scientific research whenever I can.
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