title: [Effect of music therapy among hospitalized patients with chronic low back pain: a controlled, randomized trial].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the influence of music therapy in hospitalized patients with chronic low back pain.
  
  
  METHODS
  A controlled, randomized study (N = 65). During a stationary rehabilitation stay of 12 days, 65 patients with low back pain were randomized to receive on alternate months standardized physical therapy plus 4 music therapy sessions between day 1 and day 5 (intervention group; N = 33) or standardized physical therapy alone (control group; N =32). Scores for pain (as measured on a visual analogue scale [VAS]), disability (Oswestry index) and anxiety and depression (as measured on the hospital anxiety and depression scale [HAD]) were collected on day 1, 5 and 12. Pain intensity was also evaluated on a VAS just before and after music therapy sessions.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Introduced music therapy sessions during a stationary rehabilitation stay in patients with chronic low back pain reduce pain (-2.0+/-2.7 vs -1.8+/-2.6) but not significantly. However, music therapy significantly (p < 0.01) reduced disability as measured on the Owestry index between day 1 and day 5 (-11.8+/-17.8 vs -2.5+/-9.4), anxiety (-3.5+/-3.7 vs -0.9+/-2.7) and depression (-2.1+/-3.0 vs 0.6+/-2.4). The immediate effect on pain intensity (VAS score) was confirmed (p < 0.001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our results confirmed the effectiveness of music therapy for hospitalized patients with chronic low back pain. Music therapy can be a useful complementary treatment in chronic pain and associated anxiety-depression and behavioural consequences.
authors.affiliation: Association de musicothérapie applications et recherches cliniques (AM-ARC), 4, place Laissac, Montpellier 34000, France.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Guétin
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Coudeyre
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Picot
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ginies
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Graber-Duvernay
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ratsimba
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Vanbiervliet
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Blayac
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hérisson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001007:Anxiety / Q000628:therapy; D003863:Depression / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D017116:Low Back Pain / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009147:Music Therapy