Music as medicine: simple tunes may soothe wound pain in artery disease
NCT ID NCT01323504
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tested whether listening to music during wound dressing changes can reduce pain in people with severe arteritis (stage 5 or 6). Twenty-five patients were asked to listen to music during their daily wound care. The main goal was to see if pain levels were lower on a 0-10 scale after a week. The idea is that music might offer a simple, drug-free way to help with pain that is hard to control with medicines alone.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- music therapy
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could offer a simple, non-drug way to reduce pain during wound care for people with severe arteritis.
- What could go wrong
- This is a very small, completed study with only 25 participants. The results may not apply to everyone, and music may not help all patients with severe pain.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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25 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Jun 2011
- Finished
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Dec 2015
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Men and women, aged at least 18 years, affiliated to the health insurance scheme. * Patients affected by arteritis of stage 5 or 6 at Limoges University Hospital in department cardiovascular Surgery. * Patients requiring a daily repair of bandage, not exceeding fifteen minutes and provoking a pain * Initial pain equal to three during local care in the digital scale. * Having given their enlightened consent writes Exclusion Criteria: * Bypass and / or angioplasty lower than one week * Diabetic neuropathy * Patient who is going to undergo a surgery of amputation * Patients affected by demented pathologies or by confusion * Pregnant or breast-feeding women or without effective contraception * Patients being the object of a saving of justice
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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CHU Limoges
Limoges, France, 87 042, France
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