1. The Impact of Music on Nociceptive Processing
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Guruprasad D Jambaulikar, S. Wade Taylor, Kristin L. Schreiber, Emily Schwartz, Peter R. Chai, Edward W. Boyer, Megan E Patton, Robert R. Edwards, and Jasmine Y Gale
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Adult ,Nociception ,Pain Threshold ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Pain ,Audiology ,Stimulus (physiology) ,Summation ,behavioral disciplines and activities ,Forearm ,Threshold of pain ,medicine ,Humans ,Letters to the Editor ,Integrative Medicine Section ,Pain Measurement ,business.industry ,General Medicine ,Nociceptive processing ,humanities ,Pain stimulus ,Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Anxiety ,Pain catastrophizing ,Neurology (clinical) ,medicine.symptom ,business ,human activities ,Music - Abstract
Objective. Music has been shown to modulate pain, although the impact of music on specific aspects of nociceptive processing is less well understood. Using quantitative sensory testing (QST), we assessed the impact of a novel music app on specific aspects of nociceptive processing. Design. Within-subjects paired comparison of pain processing in control vs music condition. Setting. Human psychophysical laboratory. Subjects. Sixty healthy adult volunteers. Methods. Subjects were assessed for baseline anxiety, depression, and catastrophizing using validated questionnaires. QSTs measured included 1) pain threshold and tolerance to deep muscle pressure, 2) pain with mechanical pinprick, 3) temporal summation of pain (TSP) with a repeated pain stimulus, and 4) conditioned pain modulation (CPM) with a second painful stimulus. QSTs were performed in the absence and presence of music delivered through a music app. Results. We found an increase in pressure pain thresholds in both the forearm (P = 0.007) and trapezius (P = 0.002) with music, as well as a decrease in the amount of pinprick pain (P
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- 2020
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