​Listening to music can help recovery from surgery

A new scientific report has been published about the positive impact listening to music can have on both mental and physical health.

Among the findings, researchers revealed that listening to music can help people recover from surgery by slowing the heart rate and alleviating the perception of pain, saying it had “noticeable effects” on patients during their recovery period.

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Among the findings, it was noted that these patients use less than half of the amount of morphine than those who did not listen to music.

The research reviewed existing studies on music and its impact on helping people recovery from medical procedures, narrowing 3,736 studies in 35 research papers, with data spanning patient’s experience of effects such as pain and anxiety.

“Although we can’t specifically say they’re in less pain, the studies revealed that patients perceive they are in less pain,” Shehzaib Raees, one of the scientists involved, said.

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“Music can help ease the transition from the waking up stage to a return to normalcy and may help reduce stress around that transition,” said Eldo Frezza of California Northstate University College of Medicine. “We think music can help people in different ways after surgery because music can be comforting and make you feel like you’re in a familiar place.”

The report was presented at ACS Clinical Congress 2024 in San Francisco this month. It has not yet been peer reviewed.

[Via: Independent]