Of sacred or profane origine, the truth is that think in music like something that cure is one of the most fantastic discoveries
of our time. In New York, the medical body of a hospital allowed that old
pacients choose a music seletion to hear while they where submited to ocular ambulatory surgery, what reduced a lot the blood
pressure and the stress. "The music can normalize the high pressure provocated by surgery stress", said Karen Allen, leader of the team of the New York University, in Bufalo. As it looks, the researchers availed a group of 40 men and women between 51 and 87 years old, submited to ambulatorial surgery to cataract or glaucoma. Half of the patients received a walkman and phones to use during the surgery. Pacients choosed a musical seletion that included classic guitar, folk and music from the 40s and 50s. The another half of the group didn''t heard music during the surgery. Having a pressure control, the two groups revealed a significative peak in the morning of the surgery, indicating a high level of anxiety before the procedure. The pacients that heard the music camed back to the normal level of pressure five minutes after the beginning of the music. While the patients submited to the surgery without music continued with high levels of pressure, second the study publicated on the magazine called Psychosomatic Medicine. "In this ages, we don''t know what could happen if the pressure rise. People could suffer hemorrhages or infarcts", said that responsible, adding: "As much as calm the pacient is, better he''s going to be". In the presence of this cenary, the investigators said that also they were managers of a hospital, would think seriously and allow that people carry their walkmans to ambulatorial surgeries - "Don''t cost nothing, has no risks, doesn''t hurts, could help and everybody likes", conclude.