Pain is the most common reason people seek help from the medical profession. Nursing used many approaches to treat pain such as (1) pain medication (2) imagery (3) deep breathing and (4) music. This study supported the gate control theory of pain and provides support-using music as a modality to relieve pain [9]. This study focus on cancer pain, describe music therapy as a noninvasive intervention, which allows a patient to relax, providing distraction from the pain intensity and completed with the pain impulses in the central nervous system. It is recommended to allow patients to choose the music they prefer and let them express their feelings
Music used in the operating room has the potential to provide positive result for both surgeons and operating room staffs when they are allowed to listen to music of their choice. Listening resulted in improvement of both speed and accuracy. Familiar music increased their concentration and reduces the deterioration of vigilance overtime. Music chosen by the patient before, during and after surgery yielded anxiolytic effect and improved tolerance to pain. When music was provided to anesthetized patient, they required fewer anesthesias during surgery and less analgesia during recovery [11]. The study looked at postoperative women who had hysterectomy 10 minutes segments of easy listening music were used on the first 2 days after surgery. The women scored their anxiety rating it on a scale of 0-5, from calm to extremely anxious after listening to music; the amount of anxiety reported was significantly lower. The women used these music sessions 3 hours after their pain pills. Their pain lessened by the music only on the second postoperative day [12].