Aug. 26, 2022 — Listen up, everybody: If you've ever thought your favorite song made your whole body feel better, new science suggests that wasn't just your imagination.
has been used for decades to help manage pain after an operation, during labor and after childbirth, and during cancer treatment. "Relative sound intensity might play a role in helping reduce pain," he says."Low-intensity sound is able to inactivate the audio-somatosensory pathway and thus the activation of the somatosensory thalamus." That means a noise played at low volume appears to blunt activity in parts of the brain responsible for signaling pain.
What they saw, according to Liu, suggested that the sounds"reduced reflexive paw withdrawal and aversion to painful stimuli — indicators of analgesia for rodents." In other words, the sounds appeared to help reduce pain in the mice."The 5-decibel, low-intensity sound is related to the background sound," Liu explains."It is not an absolute but rather a relative value.
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