The analgesic effect of music is increasingly recognised as an adjuvant therapy alongside more traditional forms of pain relief, particularly for chronic pain (i.e., pain lasting more than 12 weeks).

Chronic pain affects over 40 percent of the general population and is one of the leading causes of disability. For years opioid-based medications have been the primary treatment choice for chronic ...

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Listening to music, a practice spanning centuries for its potential to alleviate pain, has recently been examined by Canadian researchers to pinpoint which elements of this experience contribute to ...

As part of a $2.3 million National Institutes of Health project to broaden the understanding and use of music-based interventions for pain management, Drexel University’s College of Nursing and Health ...

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Music has the best chance of providing pain relief when it is played at our natural rhythm, a McGill University research team has discovered. This suggests it may be possible to reduce a patient's ...

Nurse Rod Salaysay works with all kinds of instruments in the hospital: a thermometer, a stethoscope and sometimes his guitar and ukulele. In the recovery unit of UC San Diego Health, Salaysay helps ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Growing evidence suggests that music therapy can be an effective method for relieving pain, according to ...

A recent article from a multi-institutional group of researchers provides recommendations for music therapy practice and research among individuals with chronic pain using sickle cell disease as an ...