[Vibration-assisted music therapy reduces pain and promotes relaxation of para- and tetraplegic patients. A pilot study of psychiatric and physical effects of simultaneous acoustic and somatosensory music stimulation as pain management]

Author(s): Michel, D., Schiftan, Y.

Journal/Book: Rehabilitation (Stuttg). 1999; 38: 245-8.

Abstract: Pain is a well known phenomenon in posttraumatic spinal cord injuries. Nearly 10% of the patients develop most severe, invalidizing, as a rule neurogenic pain conditions that are hardly accessible to conventional therapies. A pilot study was therefore conducted with 10 paraplegics and tetraplegics suffering chronic pain, investigating how vibration supported music therapy with the Musica Medica method affected pain experience, tension/relaxation and well-being. In addition to subjective experience, we measured physiological parameters (finger tip skin temperature, electrodermal activity, heart rate, respiration frequency) during the therapy sessions. All patients had a high acceptance of the method which throughout the group had brought about an increase in relaxation and well-being as well as a decrease of pain experience. The autonomic nervous system variables correlated with relaxation and in addition pointed to an activating impact of the therapy chosen.

Keyword(s): Adult. Aged. Arousal. Combined Modality Therapy. English Abstract. Female. Human. Male. Middle Age. Music Therapy. Pain/rehabilitation. Pain Measurement. Paraplegia/rehabilitation. Pilot Projects. Quadriplegia/rehabilitation. Relaxation Techniques. Spinal Cord Injuries/rehabilitation. Vibration/therapeutic use

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