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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Nicola Davis

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Listening to moving music may reduce pain study says | Mind Blowing Facts

A boy wearing headphones in a dentist's chair.
The study by McGill University in Montreal, Canada, asked participants to listen to different types of music and rate how it affected their pain levels. Photograph: Hero Images/Getty Images

If you are heading to the dentist, you may want to turn up a rousing Adele ballad. Researchers say our preferred tunes can not only prove to be powerful painkillers, but that moving music may be particularly potent.

Music has long been found to relieve pain, with recent research suggesting the effect may even occur in babies and other studies revealing that people’s preferred tunes could have a stronger painkilling effect than the relaxing music selected for them.

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