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Music Therapy on Pain Management

Professor Cross

West Coast University

Research in Nursing

Natalie Valdes

04/15/22

Pain is an important aspect of quality healthcare delivery to patients. The reduction of pain is one of the major areas of focus by healthcare providers to ensure that patients receive quality healthcare services. Pain is described as the highly unpleasant physical sensation that is caused by injury or illness. In medical terms, it is described as the mild and localized discomfort to agony forms of unpleasant sensation (Pathania et al., 2019). Poor management of patients leads to an increase in the level of pain and this leads to dissatisfaction from both healthcare providers and patients in terms of the quality of healthcare service delivered.

The management of pain during healthcare delivery takes various forms and some of the approaches are evidence-based intervention. Some of the interventions that are used by the nurses to help in pain reduction include the use of opioids, anticonvulsants for neuropathic pain relief, music therapy, and some analgesic medications among others. For this paper, the focus will be on the use of music therapy in pain management (Honzel et al., 2019). Music therapy is defined as the clinical and evidence-based application of music interventions to help in the attainment of individualized objectives within the therapeutic relationship by a qualified professional who has attained an approved music therapy program.

Music therapy is working successfully in pain management by ensuring that there is a provision of the sensory stimulation that is involved in the process of evoking the patients' responses. The music therapy intervention is also aimed at addressing different healthcare and educational objectives, for example, the promotion of wellness, the management of stress, alleviation of pain, and enhancement of the memory of the patients (Pathania et al., 2019).

The significance of the topic

Music therapy in pain management is working as an intervention that is used in chronic pain management. It helps in making sure that there is a successful process of offering stimulation that assists in evoking the responses of the patients. The research studies have proven that the music purposely used as a clinical intervention is assisting a patient through causing a reduction in the amount of pain perceived, promotion of relaxation, promotion of rhythmic breathing, and the promotion of resting (Pathania et al., 2019).

Music therapy is also helping as an intervention that is used in addressing various educational and healthcare objectives such as the promotion of physical rehabilitation, the improvement of communication, improvement of the patients' memory, and the expressions of feelings. Other objectives that are achieved or addressed by the use of music therapy include the alleviation of the pain that is felt by the patients, the successful management of the stress experienced by the patients as a result of their conditions, and successful promotion of the wellness and health of the patients receiving healthcare services (Pathania et al., 2019).

PICOT Questions

· Do postoperative adult patients using the therapeutic music on the fourth day of post-operation reports a reduced pain score as compared to non-therapeutic music for their two weeks stay in the facility?

· For the individuals diagnosed with dementia, do non-pharmacological interventions like music therapy compared to pharmacological treatments help in the reduction of pain during the two weeks stay of patients within the rehabilitation centers?

· For the patients in Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU), will the act of playing music as an adjunct to the standardized healthcare helps in the reduction of the pain scores compared to the standard care alone within the two weeks stay of patients in PACU?

References

Pathania, S., Slater, L. Z., Vose, C., & Navarra, A. M. (2019). Music therapy and pain management in patients with end-stage liver disease: An evidence-based practice quality improvement project. Pain Management Nursing, 20(1), 10-16

Honzel, E., Murthi, S., Brawn-Cinani, B., Colloca, G., Kier, C., Varshney, A., & Colloca, L. (2019). Virtual reality, music, and pain: developing the premise for an interdisciplinary approach to pain management. Pain, 160(9), 1909