Study: Listening to Favorite Music May Reduce Pain

But new research in the journal Frontiers in Pain Research suggests that pain may ease when patients listen to their favorite music.

“We show that favorite music chosen by study participants has a much larger effect on acute thermal pain reduction than unfamiliar relaxing music,” lead author Darius Valevicius, a doctoral student at the University of Montreal, said in a journal news release. As part of the study, participants received moderately painful thermal stimuli to the inner forearm. This felt like a hot teacup being held against the skin.

Researchers asked participants about their emotional responses to their favorite music and assigned themes: energizing/activating, happy/cheerful, calming/relaxing and moving/bittersweet.“We found that reports of moving or bittersweet emotional experiences seem to result in lower ratings of pain unpleasantness, which was driven by more intense enjoyment of the music and more musical chills,” Valevicius said.

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