Hi everyone in today's episode we're going to talk about the effects of music on pain relief during labor

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Hi everyone and welcome to episode 35 of the Evidence Space Birth Podcast.

I'm really excited about today's topic because I'm an amateur musician. I grew up playing piano and flute and in college I had piano scholarship so this is a topic that I was really interested in exploring the research about.

First, I wanted to talk a little bit about music therapy in general, and this information comes

from the American Music Therapy Association and an article published by Bradley Palmer in 2015.

Now the field of music therapy is a relatively new non-drug professional medical practice that

aims to promote the well-being of people of

all ages both sick and healthy. Music therapy is used in clinical settings and in the

home setting to provide relief to people suffering from acute and chronic pain,

brain injuries, mental conditions, substance abuse, aging related conditions, as well as

a wide range of developmental learning and physical disabilities.

But how might music therapy or music in general work to promote comfort and lower pain levels

during labor?

Well, researchers think that music might change

how a person perceives pain by decreasing its unpleasantness. According to

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