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Analgesic Effect of Music Listening During Pain Elicitation in Fibromyalgia

NCT04059042 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 10

Last updated 2023-12-15

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Summary

Patients with fibromyalgia (FM) are more sensitive to things that cause pain. Music lowers self-reported pain in patients with chronic pain. The investigators are able to measure pain sensitivity and pain tolerance using tools that cause pain and give accurate measurements of how much pressure is put on the body (QST). Previous studies have shown that after a few minutes of listening to music patients with FM have less self-reported pain, can get up and move from sitting more quickly, and have more activity in part of the brain that tells the body to stop sending pain signals. The investigators will study 40 patients with FM using the QST tools. All patients will have testing done as usual, with no sound. Then half of the patients will have testing done while listening to instrumental Classical music, and the other half will have testing done while listening to nature sounds. The investigators will test 1) whether listening to anything lessens pain compared to listening to nothing at all; and 2) whether listening to music lessens pain more than listening to nature sounds. Our study will be the first to study whether objectively measured pain sensitivity is less while listening to music in these patients.

Conditions

  • Fibromyalgia

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Music Listening

Participants will have pain threshold testing while listening to silence, music, or nature sounds.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Kansas Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Rebecca J Lepping, PhD · University of Kansas Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-12-13
Primary Completion
2020-03-23
Completion
2020-03-23

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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