Music as pain relief?

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Music as pain relief?

Post by Stephanie » Wed Oct 06, 2021 10:08 am

Apparently Nurofen have designed a song based on “scientific evidence” to relieve pain...

https://www.musicradar.com/news/electro ... ain-relief
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Re: Music as pain relief?

Post by shpalman » Wed Oct 06, 2021 11:43 am

Stephanie wrote:
Wed Oct 06, 2021 10:08 am
Apparently Nurofen have designed a song based on “scientific evidence” to relieve pain...

https://www.musicradar.com/news/electro ... ain-relief
I'm listening now, I like the track.
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Re: Music as pain relief?

Post by basementer » Wed Oct 06, 2021 11:51 am

Nurofen is a trade mark. It's "designed" something? f.ck off, musicradar.
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Re: Music as pain relief?

Post by Stephanie » Wed Oct 06, 2021 12:04 pm

shpalman wrote:
Wed Oct 06, 2021 11:43 am
Stephanie wrote:
Wed Oct 06, 2021 10:08 am
Apparently Nurofen have designed a song based on “scientific evidence” to relieve pain...

https://www.musicradar.com/news/electro ... ain-relief
I'm listening now, I like the track.
yeah, it's okay - I'm interested to see what they publish too. I mean, I do like listening to music, but I don't know much about it's use in pain beyond that
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Re: Music as pain relief?

Post by Stephanie » Wed Oct 06, 2021 12:05 pm

basementer wrote:
Wed Oct 06, 2021 11:51 am
Nurofen is a trade mark. It's "designed" something? f.ck off, musicradar.
tbf, the track is on Spotify under "Nurofen". I could have put "the team behind Nurofen plus researchers", but I was headed into a meeting
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Re: Music as pain relief?

Post by jdc » Thu Oct 07, 2021 7:37 pm

Doesn't work after all. It turns out they played the controls Daydreamer by Menswear which actually induced pain in that group.

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Re: Music as pain relief?

Post by Tessa K » Sat Oct 09, 2021 7:31 am

That's super annoying. The bl..dy kids in the background in particular.

I can see that something soothing might work but people's tastes are so different there is no one-size-fits-all. But then, if people are dumb enough to think Nurofen works better because it costs so much more than plain ibuprofen, maybe it does have some sort of placebo effect.

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Re: Music as pain relief?

Post by JackWhite1 » Tue Nov 30, 2021 12:19 pm

I do not know about this one, but definitely, the music (especially classics) really helps me when I have a bad mood or a headache.

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