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Jul 7, 2021 · Studies where participants chose the music (as opposed to the researchers) also yielded greater MIA effects—a result that supports evidence that a positive emotional response to music is important.⁵. Given these findings, Dr. Garza-Villarreal’s team decided to examine the analgesic effect of music on the central pain condition, fibromyalgia.
Feb 11, 2014 · In this study we found that listening to music that is relaxing, highly pleasant, familiar, and self-chosen, reduced pain and increase functional mobility in fibromyalgia patients. We also found that the improvement in functional mobility was closely related to music-induced analgesia, especially in the affective dimension of the pain.
- Eduardo A. Garza-Villarreal, Eduardo A. Garza-Villarreal, Andrew D Wilson, Lene Vase, Elvira Brattic...
- 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00090
- 2014
- Front Psychol. 2014; 5: 90.
Nov 4, 2019 · Listening to music eases pain in people with fibromyalgia (FM) by lowering brain activity related to pain and inducing activity that helps to distract, relax, and foster positive emotions, a study suggests. The study, “ Functional connectivity of music-induced analgesia in fibromyalgia,” was published in the journal Nature.
PMCID: PMC4325896 PMID: 25545161. Researchers have hypothesized that thalamocortical dysfunction plays a role in fibromyalgia. The use of low-frequency sound stimulation to ameliorate thalamocortical dysfunction has also been investigated, and has shown promise in treating certain pain conditions. Accordingly, the authors of this study aimed to ...
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Music is one of the oldest social–cognitive domains in humans. The need for communication often justifies listening to music and other music-based interventions. Classical music, such as Mozart’s Sonata K. 448, enhances short-term spatiotemporal reasoning . A previous systematic review and meta-analysis study described the efficacy of music interve...
Participants
All participants were evaluated at Juntendo University from November 2017 to January 2019. No patients had any other critical medical illnesses. This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Juntendo University Nerima Hospital, and written informed consent was obtained from all participants before the start of the study in accordance with institutional guidelines. We enrolled 23 female patients with FM (mean age ± SD [range] = 42.8 ± 11.4 [20–59] years), confirmed with two standard sets...
Procedure
We used the inventories (Japanese version of Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire, Beck Depression Inventory, Athene Insomnia Scale, Insomnia Severity Index), those do not assess short-term conditions, only at baseline. Otherwise we examined numeric rating scale (NRS) for assessment for the immediate effect of a music intervention on FM. A previous study showed that listening to Mozart may improve pain behaviors in rats with bone cancer pain , and there is moderate evidence that listening to...
Image Preprocessing
We preprocessed all imaging data using the Functional Connectivity (CONN) toolbox run on MATLAB R2016b, (MathWorks, Natick, MA, USA). Individual rs-fMRI data were co-registered to the T1 images and were slice-timed, realigned, and then normalized to the standard Montreal Neurological Institute template, as implemented in Statistical Parametric Mapping (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, London, UK; http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/). Image artifacts originating from head movement we...
Table 1shows the clinical and demographic characteristics of all the study participants. Patients were treated with the following drugs: duloxetine, four patients; mirtazapine, one patient; pregabalin, four patients; a combination of duloxetine and pregabalin, 11 patients; pregabalin and tramadol hydrochloride, one patient; a combination of tramado...
This study examined the short-term effects of music interventions for patients with FM. We clarified the relationship between a short-term music intervention and alterations in functional connectivity and the degree of pain. Our results clearly showed the short-term effectiveness of music interventions on patients with FM and alterations in functio...
This study has several limitations. First, we utilized an open-label design. A case–control study will be required to validate the results. Second, all patients with FM in the present study were receiving several types of medication. Third, the sample size was small. A larger number of cases will be required in a future study to establish the effic...
The results of the present study suggest that listening to music ameliorates persistent pain in patients with FM. In addition, we found alterations in functional IC-DMN connectivity following a music intervention. We hypothesize that listening to music may normalize the neural network temporarily and promote pain relief in patients with FM. Additio...
We thank Mr. Hirayama for technical support for fMRI. We also thank Birch, PhD, from the Edanz Group (www.edanzediting.com/ac), for editing a draft of this manuscript.
- Chie Usui, Eiji Kirino, Shoji Tanaka, Rie Inami, Kenya Nishioka, Kotaro Hatta, Toshihiro Nakajima, K...
- 2020
Nov 5, 2022 · Background Fibromyalgia patients can benefit from music approaches as complementary treatments. In the literature, it was shown that these interventions managed pain conditions as well as reduced complaints, increased relaxation, and improved moods. Objective This study aimed at evaluating music therapy, in the form of therapeutic music listening, specifically for patients with fibromyalgia ...
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Oct 29, 2019 · Listening to self-chosen, pleasant and relaxing music reduces pain in fibromyalgia (FM), a chronic centralized pain condition. However, the neural correlates of this effect are fairly unknown. In ...
