Whether this listening is done through headphones or via a speaker, music allows patients to feel better more quickly the day after an operation. Patients report 7 to 19% lower pain, morphine consumption halved, and anxiety reduced by 3% on average, with a heart rate 4.5 beats per minute lower on average, according to the work of researchers at the University of Californiapublished on Friday, October 18, in the American College of Surgeons. If meditation or yoga can cause the same effects, researchers insist that music is easier to offer to convalescent patients.
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The study thus looked at the different styles of music, in order to determine the most likely to promote the recovery of convalescent patients. The most effective music would simply be “the one that the patient prefers, and which is familiar to him“, indicate the doctors.
Titles among the most appreciated by the general publicas Dancing Queen from the ABBA group or Good Vibrations of the Beach Boys, have thus shown their effectiveness in increasing the level of endorphin, the hormone of well-being according to the work of a Dutch neuroscientist. Obviously, others will prefer classical music or why not folk music. In therapeutic matters too, the choice of music remains personal, and above all very cultural. This is the opinion of a study carried out a few years ago by American anthropologists. They made people living in the United States, Bolivia, and in an Amazonian village totally cut off from Western culture listen to a wide variety of music. The result is edifying: there is no real consensus in the human species on what is melodious or dissonant. The doctors haven’t finished adding to their playlist.
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