Music-based Treatments and Pain: Underlying Mechanisms and the Beneficial Effects of Music-Based Treatments

Music Therapy is a music session with a live therapist and has been shown to reduce pain and anxiety. If effective the music medicine in this RCT will be used help design a full R01 study

Music Medicine is an audio recorded music therapy session that will be played for the participant. This will be the same music session that will be played live in the music therapy session.

Control group will listen to an audio recording of text being spoken by the board certified music therapist