SynthesisJournal of orthopaedic surgery and research2020
The effect of musical interventions in improving short-term pain outcomes following total knee replacement: a meta-analysis and systematic review.
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- Murottal and Classical Music Effect on Pain: Clinical Trial.Journal of pain research · 2025Article
- The psychophysiology of music-based interventions and the experience of pain.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- Exploring the use of music to promote physical activity: From the viewpoint of psychological hedonism.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Acute Pain Management Pearls: A Focused Review for the Hospital Clinician.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Estimation of Tibiofemoral Joint Contact Forces Using Foot Loads during Continuous Passive Motions.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Music Intervention for Pain Control in the Pediatric Population: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
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- Perioperative Pain Management and Opioid Stewardship: A Practical Guide.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Effects of Short-Term Music Therapy on Negative Emotions and Quality of Life in Primiparas.Noise & healthArticle
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Abstract
backgroundA growing number of patients continue to receive total knee replacement (TKR) surgery. Nevertheless, such surgeries result in moderate to severe postoperative pain and difficulty in managing it. Musical interventions are regarded as a type of multimodal analgesia, achieving beneficial results in other clinical treatments. This study aims to evaluate the effect of musical interventions in improving short-term pain outcomes following TKR in order to determine a more reasonable and standard way of delivering musical intervention.
methodsA systematic search was conducted to identify available and relevant randomized controlled trials (RCTs) regarding musical interventions compared against non-musical interventions in patients treated with TKR in Embase, MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, CNKI, and Wanfang Med Online up to 8 January 2020. The authors independently assessed study eligibility and risk of bias and collected the outcomes of interest to analyze. The statistical analysis was conducted using the Review Manager (RevMan) version 5.30 software.
resultsEight RCTs comprised of 555 patients satisfied the inclusion criteria and were enrolled in the present study. The results showed no significant difference between the music and control groups in pain of the visual analog scale (VAS), during postoperative recovery room, back to the ward after surgery; anxiety degree of VAS; heart rate; respiratory rate; oxygen saturation; blood pressure, systolic blood pressure, and diastolic blood pressure. Nevertheless, significant differences were observed between the two groups in average increase in continuous passive motion (CPM) angles and LF/HF ratio (one kind index of heart rate variability).
conclusionsMusical interventions fail to demonstrate an obvious effect in improving short-term pain outcomes following TKR. A reasonable standardization of musical interventions, including musical type, outcome measures used, outcomes measured, duration, timing and headphones or players, may improve pain outcomes with certain advantages and should be further explored after TKR.
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