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Park Your Pain with Music

In a small study of patients with back, neck or joint pain, researchers found that regularly listening to music provided pain relief beyond that brought on by standard pain management techniques.

The scientists randomly divided 60 patients ages 26 to 64, all of them receiving traditional pain treatment, into three groups.

Over seven days, the first listened for one hour a day to one of five tapes chosen by the researchers, the second to music of their own choosing, and the third received only standard care.

All patients kept diaries recording their level of pain, depression and disability.

The music groups experienced a 20 percent decrease in pain compared with a 2 percent increase in pain in the control group. Pain was measured using two questionnaires.

The study is in The Journal of Advanced Nursing.

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