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Sergei Prokofiev, that is. Tufts-New England Medical Center researchers say that music in the recovery room cuts the need for post-op pain drugs such as morphine.

The study, by a team led by Dr. M. Soledad Cepeda, a professor at Javeriana University School of Medicine in Bogota, Colombia, and a faculty member of the anesthesia department at Tufts-New England Medical Center, was based on the combined results from 14 studies in which 489 surgery patients listened to prerecorded music.

The researchers found that not only did listening to music reduce the patients� need for morphine-like drugs, but that patients who listened to music after surgery reported less pain than other patients who were not exposed to it.

Source: As seen in Making Music Magazine's September/October 2006 issue.
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