A new research study, reported in the May issue of the Journal of Advanced Nursing, finds that music helped to ease chronic, non-malignant, ongoing pain in adults who had been suffering for a least six months.
Researchers already knew that music helps with the pain patients sometimes experience when undergoing various diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, as well as helping acute pain and also cancer pain. But music's effects on chronic pain, particularly its effects on feelings of power, depression, and disability in adults with chronic pain had not been studied. One interesting finding from this study was that it didn't seem to matter what kind of music was used. All kinds, from vocal, jazz, piano, orchestra or harp, won kudos for effectiveness.
Plus, here's a treatment that has no bad side effects and is safe and easy to use. If you live with chronic pain, soothing music may help to increase your feelings of power and help with depression of disability. Now that's news we can live with!
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