• J Pain · Jul 2023

    The Impact of Varied Music Applications on Pain Perception and Situational Pain Catastrophizing.

    • Carin A Colebaugh, Jenna M Wilson, K Mikayla Flowers, Demario Overstreet, Dan Wang, Robert R Edwards, Peter R Chai, and Kristin L Schreiber.
    • Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: ccolebaugh@bwh.harvard.edu.
    • J Pain. 2023 Jul 1; 24 (7): 118111921181-1192.

    AbstractWe evaluated how pain processing and situational pain catastrophizing differed between 2 music interventions (Unwind and favorite music) and a control condition (white noise). Healthy adults (n = 70) completed quantitative sensory testing (QST) measuring pressure pain threshold (PPTh) and tolerance (PPTol), heat pain threshold (HPTh), offset analgesia (OA), temporal summation of pain (TSP), and conditioned pain modulation (CPM). Participants completed 3 QST rounds with the presence of white noise (control condition), a relaxing music app (Unwind), and their favorite music, which were presented in a randomized order. The Situational Pain Catastrophizing Scale was completed after each round. Friedman tests and post hoc Wilcoxon signed-rank tests were used to compare pain processing and catastrophizing across the 3 conditions. Participants' PPTh, PPTol, and HPTh were significantly higher during the favorite music condition compared to the other 2 conditions, indicating lower pain sensitivity when listening to favorite music. In contrast, OA was lower in the favorite music condition. Although TSP and CPM were induced by the QST paradigm, these did not differ across the 3 conditions. Situational pain catastrophizing was also significantly lower during the favorite music condition. Several measures of pain sensitivity and situational pain catastrophizing were lower when listening to favorite music compared to relaxing music or white noise. More research is necessary to determine the mechanism(s) by which music modulates pain processing. PERSPECTIVE: This article presents evidence that participant-chosen favorite music can alter several aspects of nociceptive processing, including catastrophic thinking about pain, compared to white noise or relaxing music. Employing an individual's favorite music during episodic or procedural pain might represent a cost effective adjunctive analgesic strategy.Copyright © 2023 United States Association for the Study of Pain, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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