Abstract

ALONSO-CARDANO, A.; HERNAEZ-MARTINEZ, M.  and  MARTI-AUGE, P.. Multimodal treatmaent of chronic low back pain: A music therapy program. Rev. Soc. Esp. Dolor [online]. 2008, vol.15, n.4, pp.228-233. ISSN 1134-8046.

Background. Chronic pain represents a significant obstacle in maintaining function and independence. Previous studies have shown that music can improve motivation and increase feelings of control in patients with chronic pain. Objective. To examine the influence of a musictherapy program on chronic low back pain patients related to coping strategies. Material an method. 14 patients from the Pain Unit in the San Pedro Hospital of Logroño were included in a music-therapy program during six weeks with a dignosis of chronic low back pain. Subjects were weekly visited by a music therapist, 60 min per sesión. All the patients answered a questionnarie to evalúate the used coping strategies to pain (CAD), in the first and the end visits. In adittion, a severity pain scale (VAS) was answered twice in each interventional session. Results. The pain coping strategy more frecuently used was information seeking. All strategies shown better results at the end of the program, but only two of them had significant results: information seeking, catarsis, and distraction. Conclusión. The music-therapy program increased the more active pain coping estrategies that are possitively associated to a better degree of adjustment of the patient with chronic low back pain.

Keywords : chronic pain; music-therapy; coping; CAD.

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