Pain management

A recent study reveals that favorite music effectively lowers pain perception, outperforming unfamiliar relaxing music. Emotional responses and musical chills play key roles in this process, indicating new avenues for pain management through music therapy. Researchers discovered that listening to our favorite music reduces both pain intensity and unpleasantness, insights that could optimize music-centered treatments for pain management. Research indicates that music could serve as a non-pharmacological method to reduce…

Around 17 million Americans had chronic pain so bad in 2021 that it drastically interfered with their lives, according to a recent study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The analysis estimates that nearly 52 million American adults—about one in every five—suffered from chronic pain in 2021.Won’t Virtual Reality Make Me Sick?CDC researchers examined recent data collected from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), an in-person survey of households meant to be representative of the country as a…