Listening to music after surgery can help patients recover, study says

Music can reduce pain and reduce morphine use in more than half of patients

A recent survey indicated this Listening to music after surgery can relieve patients’ pain and anxietyoffering a simple alternative to reduce the need for painkillers. Eldo Frezza, from the School of Medicine at California Northstate University (USA), conducted one of the studies that examined 35 investigations into the effects of music on postoperative patients.

This is demonstrated by the results of the study, presented at the American College of Surgeons conference in San Francisco, California music can reduce pain by an average of 20%beyond arreduce the use of morphine in more than half of the patients who listened to it.

“Many people, when they wake up from anesthesia, are lost. They may experience anxiety or perhaps feel the pain of the surgery itself,” Frezza said in an interview with New Scientist.

Researchers in Frezza’s group also found that listening to music can help reduce feelings of anxiety. On average, heart rate dropped by about 4.5 beats per minute and participants reported a decrease of about 2.5 points in their anxiety levels, measured on a scale of 20 to 80.

Therefore, researchers believe that music has the ability to increase serotonin levels, which helps divert attention from pain and generates a calming effect.

“Music distracts attention from pain by increasing the levels of a signaling molecule called serotonin, which passes between brain cells and makes us feel good,” confirmed Frezza, highlighting the relationship between sound stimuli and improvement of patients’ emotional state.

The authors of the research also highlight the importance of future studies involving samples of different participants. This type of methodology will allow a more reliable analysis of the effects of music on post-operative recovery.

Source: Terra

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