“…Despite these many differences in study design, significant beneficial effects of exposure to music on the experience of pain have consistently been documented in adults, neonates and children (e.g., Klassen et al, 2008;van der Heijden et al, 2015;Johnson et al, 2021;Ting et al, 2022), and across a range of acute and chronic conditions (Garza-Villareal et al, 2017). For example in childbirth (e.g., Simavli et al, 2014;Maleki and Youseflu, 2023), dysmenorrhea (Martin-Saavedra and Ruiz-Sternberg, 2018), laparoscopy (Choi et al, 2023), orthopaedics (Lin et al, 2019;Yu et al, 2020), cancer (Chow et al, 2023;Huang and Huang, 2023), fibromyalgia (Guétin et al, 2012;Usui et al, 2020), dermatology (Riew et al, 2023) and pre-and postoperative care during cardiovascular (Voss et al, 2004;Nilsson, 2009;Wang et al, 2020;Chandrababu et al, 2021;Kakar et al, 2021) or abdominal surgery (e.g., Good et al, 2005;Dale, 2021). There is evidence of music providing pain relief in patients being treated for burns (Whitehead-Pleaux et al, 2007;Hsu et al, 2016;Wu et al, 2021), and for patients in emergency departments or intensive care units (Richard-Lalonde et al, 2020;See et al, 2023;Vijay and Hauser, 2023).…”