Essentially, patients in the study were instructed to listen to their favorite music the evening before their spine surgery and then to continue to listen to it through the second day after.
Ultimately, this 30-person group reported a ”statistically significant” result — they experienced less pain and anxiety than the 30-person control group, which did not listen to any music. The average pain rating the music-listening group gave, on a scale of 1 to 10, was 2.35, compared to 5.2 for the control group.
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