Effectiveness of Music Listening in Patients With Total Knee Replacement During CPM Rehabilitation

Abstract

Music listening can effectively reduce patient anxiety and enhance the ROM of their joints during postoperative rehabilitation. Health-care practitioners should consider including music listening as a routine practice for postoperative rehabilitation following orthopedic surgery.

A systematic review of the use of music interventions to improve outcomes for patients undergoing hip or knee surgery

“…The intervention duration ranged from 25 min up to the duration of the patient's hospital stay. Allred, Byers, and Sole () delivered music intervention postoperatively, before and after initial ambulation, for 20 min each time, whilst Hsu, Chen, Chen, Tseng, and Lin () delivered theirs 10 min before and for the duration of Continuous Passive Motion (CPM) treatment, for 2 days. Two studies had similar delivery time points (McCaffrey, ; McCaffrey & Locsin, ), with participants listening to music four times daily, for a minimum of an hour each time, until discharge.…”

“…(), and Hsu et al. () used the Visual Analog Scale (VAS) (Miller & Ferris, ). All seven studies that investigated pain also used VAS to measure perceived pain intensity (Allred et al., ; Antall & Kresevic, ; Chen et al., ; Kang et al., ; McCaffrey & Locsin, ; Santhna et al., ; Simcock et al., ).…”

“…Three of the 10 included studies measured anxiety. The intervention and control groups in two studies reported the highest level of anxiety pre‐operatively (Antall & Kresevic, ; Hsu et al., ). This suggests that patients in both studies were more anxious before surgery than they were after surgery.…”

The impact of the arts in healthcare on patients and service users: A critical review

“…For instance, Bae, Man Lim, Hur, and Lee () investigated the effects of music listening on anxiety levels for patients undergoing regional anaesthesia for a range of surgical procedures. In contrast, Kipnis, Tabak, and Koton () evaluated the effect of background music on preoperative anxiety in elective surgery patients, whereas Hsu, Chen, Chen, Tseng, and Lin () examined the effects of music listening on anxiety levels for patients undergoing knee replacement.…”

Fun During Knee Rehabilitation: Feasibility and Acceptability Testing of a New Android-Based Training Device

“…This aims to facilitate quadriceps reactivation and prevent post-traumatic knee weakness. It is believed that by playing computer game, post-traumatic pain can be reduced by mental distraction, similar to the effect of listening to music that can reduce pain after knee arthroplasty [19]. Nevertheless, further study is needed to confirm this statement.…”