Music ‘can reduce chronic pain’

From BBC News via the Net-Gold list:

Research has con­firmed lis­ten­ing to music can have a sig­nif­i­cant pos­i­tive impact on per­cep­tion of chronic pain.

US researchers tested the effect of music on 60 patients who had endured years of chronic pain.

Those who lis­tened to music reported a cut in pain lev­els of up to 21%, and in asso­ci­ated depres­sion of up to 25%, com­pared to those who did not listen.

While I doubt the IRS is going to let us claim iPods as med­ical equip­ment for tax deduc­tions any time soon, it’s well worth exper­i­ment­ing to see what music soothes each of us.

June 6, 2006   Posted in: From the news

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