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Episode: How listening to music may help ease pain from surgery or illness
Description: Hospitals and doctors' offices in the U.S. are inviting singers and musicians to help patients manage their pain.
No one is suggesting that a catchy song can completely eliminate serious pain. But several recent studies, including those in the journals PAIN and Scientific Reports, have suggested that listening to music can either reduce the perception of pain or enhance a personβs ability to tolerate it.
Nurse Rod Salaysay works with all kinds of instruments in the hospital: a thermometer, a stethoscope, and sometimes his guitar and ukulele. In the recovery unit of UC San Diego Health, Salaysay helps pa...