Music as a Sleep Aid in Fibromyalgia

Larry M Picard; Lee R Bartel; Allan S Gordon; Davor Cepo; Qi Wu; Leah R Pink

doi:10.1155/2014/272108

Pain Research and Management (Jan 2014)

Music as a Sleep Aid in Fibromyalgia

Larry M Picard,
Lee R Bartel,
Allan S Gordon,
Davor Cepo,
Qi Wu,
Leah R Pink

Affiliations

Larry M Picard: Music and Health Research Collaboratory, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lee R Bartel: Music and Health Research Collaboratory, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Allan S Gordon: Music and Health Research Collaboratory, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Davor Cepo: Music and Health Research Collaboratory, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Qi Wu: Wasser Pain Management Centre, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Leah R Pink: Wasser Pain Management Centre, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/272108
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 19, no. 2
pp. 97 – 101

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: Interventions to improve sleep in fibromyalgia may generalize to improvements in multiple symptom domains. Delta-embedded music, pulsating regularly within the 0.25 Hz to 4 Hz frequency band of brain wave activity, has the potential to induce sleep.

Published in Pain Research and Management

ISSN: 1203-6765 (Print); 1918-1523 (Online)
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Medicine (General)
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/7040

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