Effect of Music Therapy on Pain

Effect of Music Therapy on Chronic Pain in Hospitalized Patients in a Pain Center

The aim of study is to assess the effects of this new music therapy technique on pain treatment, anxiety and depression and on medicinal consumption.

The "U" technique is a music therapy method of recent use developed by taking into account recommendations of the scientific literature. The objective of the study is to evaluate this method on chronic painful patients presenting a lumbago, a fibromyalgia, an inflammatory or neurological pathology. During the hospitalization, the intervention group benefited from at least 2 daily sessions of music therapy between day 0 and day 10, and continued the musicotherapy at home until day 60. The evaluated criteria are pain, depression and anxiety and their evolution after 60 days of treatment (since the inclusion). The evaluation at day 90 allows to test the persistence of the effect of the music therapy 90 days later.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Have a pain for more than 6 months
• Pain of neurological origin (fibromyalgia, algodystrophies), or skeletal musculous (back, sciatic nerve)
• Speak and read French fluently
• Wrote consent of patients
• Benefit from the standard treatment : Intravenous treatment (tranquillizer, antidepressive) the first 5 days, 2 time by day (in the morning and evening), followed by the intermediary orally up to the exit (prescribed doses and at request)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Time of hospitalization < 8 days
• Reflex epilepsy history
• Major insufficiency of auditory function
• Patient with a strong possibility of not compliance to the protocol or of abandon in the course of study
• Presence of an illness threatening vital forecast during period envisaged for the study