NEW YORK: Listening to music could considerably reduce chronic pain, say US-based scientists.

Sandra Siedlecki of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and other researchers, studied over 60 patients who were suffering from osteoarthritis, disc problems and rheumatoid arthritis for an six and a half years, reported the online edition of BBC News.

They found that those who listened to music reported a cut in pain levels of up to 21 per cent and in associated depression of up to 25 per cent, compared to those who did not.

The study, published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing, also found that music helped people feel less disabled by their condition. Listening to music has already been shown to promote a number of positive benefits and this research adds to the growing body of evidence that it has an important role to play in modern healthcare, said Marion Good, another researcher.

"They found that those who listened to music reported a cut in pain levels of up to 21 per cent and in associated depression of up to 25 per cent, compared to those who did not."

"They" obviously wern't listening to any newer RIAA material...
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so all that music of mine has made you feel better leflaw

and the newer RIAA stuff can be used to induce vomiting!

It can also drown out the chronic complaining of people in chronic pain.

Good stuff, posters!!!
(gasping for breath after laughing so vigorously)

Really, you guys sometimes get my sides hurting from the humor, subtle or otherwise!

"and the newer RIAA stuff can be used to induce vomiting! "

i was it could be used to induce great anger.

Some people have been shown to have higher circulating blood levels of beta endorphins and other endogenos opiods.

http://www.mtulode.com/article.php?articleId=111

"Music releases the same endorphins, causes the same blood flow and creates the same electric responses as food, drugs, alcohol and sex do. Music is more like drugs than sex and food; the latter two are biologically pleasurable because they feed the body’s main functions, to survive and reproduce. Drugs, alcohol and music, on the other hand create “false” feelings of joy. After listening to music or taking drugs, you body isn’t any better off than it was before, but it feels better. "

Surgeon General's Warning; listening to music at Insane Wayne's house can cause perminate hearing loss, headaches, and knick-nacks to fall offn walls

"Drugs, alcohol and music, on the other hand create “false” feelings of joy. After listening to music or taking drugs, you body isn’t any better off than it was before, but it feels better."

How sad and pathetic it must be for someone to allow others to define 'joy' for them. How sad it must be to let others to label one's own feelings as 'false' and be duped into that bizarre concept. Just how shallow and corrupt, both emotionally and intellectually, must one be to accept the absurd notion that 'you feel better but you're not better' .

Kassia Prystalski needs to get laid. And stoned. And to listen to some good music.
It's painfully obvious.

gfmlcka: Kassia Prystalski needs to get laid. And stoned. And to listen to some good music.

Hell, I have done those things simultaneously.

and no regrets ss eh?

I hear music when listened to at appropriate volume levels can also help with tinnitus. They call it sound therapy. Nothing has been proven though. I suffer from intrusive tinnitus myself unfortunately. Please people. Protect your ears. When at concerts wear earplugs. When listening on headphones don't crank the volume. Trust me. You will thank me for this advice as you get older.

Kassia wrote: "After listening to music, your body isn’t any better off than it was before, but it feels better."

I'll take feeling better over not feeling better any day.
And I'm with gfmlcka (music isn't false feelings of joy).

Regarding Kassia's notion that sex is biologically pleasurable because it serves the body’s function to reproduce:
A logical argument could be made that it's just as likely the other way around. (Sex serves the body's function to reproduce because it is biologically pleasurable.)

Sorry, Kassia, I'm not impressed with some of your perspectives. I suggest you go listen to some fine music for inspiration!