title: [Vibration-assisted music therapy reduces pain and promotes relaxation of para- and tetraplegic patients. A pilot study of psychiatric and physical effects of simultaneous acoustic and somatosensory music stimulation as pain management].
abstract: Pain is a well known phenomenon in posttraumatic spinal cord injuries. Nearly 10% of the patients develop most severe, invalidizing, as a rule neurogenic pain conditions that are hardly accessible to conventional therapies. A pilot study was therefore conducted with 10 paraplegics and tetraplegics suffering chronic pain, investigating how vibration supported music therapy with the Musica Medica method affected pain experience, tension/relaxation and well-being. In addition to subjective experience, we measured physiological parameters (finger tip skin temperature, electrodermal activity, heart rate, respiration frequency) during the therapy sessions. All patients had a high acceptance of the method which throughout the group had brought about an increase in relaxation and well-being as well as a decrease of pain experience. The autonomic nervous system variables correlated with relaxation and in addition pointed to an activating impact of the therapy chosen.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Psychophysiologie, Zürich.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Mariauzouls
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Michel
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Schiftan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001143:Arousal; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009147:Music Therapy; D010146:Pain / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D010147:Pain Measurement; D010264:Paraplegia / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011782:Quadriplegia / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D012064:Relaxation Therapy; D013119:Spinal Cord Injuries / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D014732:Vibration / Q000627:therapeutic use*