Rhythmic music burns pain effectively, scientists 22:51

Canadian scientists from the University of McGill found that music can effectively reduce pain if a person corresponds to natural rhythm. The study was published scientifically magazine Pain.

Music has long been used to alleviate pain, but so far it has been little known about which aspects of music has the greatest effect.

Each person has his own natural rhythm known as self -production rate (SPR). This rhythm is associated with circadian rhythms and can affect how we perceive music. Experts suggested that the musical tempo is close to our natural rhythm that can remove the brain from pain signals.

To control the hypothesis, the researchers conducted an experiment with 60 people, including both musicians and people without music experiences. Volunteers listened to the melodies whose speed were adapted to natural rhythms or accelerated or slowed by 15%. They were subjected to weak pain during listening, for example, thermal impulses on the forearm and evaluated the level of pain.

The results showed that music reduces pain compared to silence at any speed. However, the biggest effect, the music rate was observed when the participant coincides with the natural rhythm of the participant.

Scientists also suggested that neural vibrations associated with rhythm perception may synchronize with music, which can help reduce the activity of neural chains responsible for pain. In the future, researchers plan to use electroencephalography (EEG) to examine how the brain reacts to music at a different speed and to verify the results.

This discovery may have important practical practice. For example, you can develop technologies that adapt the patient’s individual rhythm to the patient’s individual rhythm to alleviate the speed of your favorite music compositions.

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