1 hour/day of classic music mixed with salsa music resulted in a 24% reduction of pain over placebo. this is a confirmation of a different study finding relief with regular music listening:
Music Therapy in Chronic Pain May Drop Pains by 50% 0ver 2 Months
Pain Manag Nurs. 2013 Jun;14(2):e39-46.
Effect of music as nursing intervention for people diagnosed with fibromyalgia.
Onieva-Zafra MD, Castro-Sánchez AM, Matarán-Peñarrocha GA, Moreno-Lorenzo C.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23108015
- 28 in musci group; 27 in control
- 1hour day CD of mixed classical and salsa music.
- new cd after 2 weeks
Results:
- This was a spanish study which might explain the use of cuban salsa music; the other study started with stimulating, then went to slow and ended with moderate pace music.
Comment – Some cases of Fibromyalgia are overachievers who give themselves very little time to recover from their day. Music therapy could particularly help here but might be a hard sell. The other music study was 20 minutes twice daily which might be more palatable.
addendum
women prior to cold pressor testing find music helps pain tolerance – deson’t seem to help men
Pak J Med Sci. 2013 Jan;29(1):128-31.
Music can effectively reduce pain perception in women rather than men.
Ghaffaripour , Mahmoudi , Sahmeddini , Alipour , Chohedri .
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24353523
addendum – music therapy has an effect on leptin levels
Lv, Yingying, et al.
Musical therapy attenuates neuroma pain by modifying leptin expression.
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies 22.1 (2022): 1-8.
https://bmccomplementmedtherapies.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12906-022-03795-8