Effect of synchronized or desynchronized music listening during osteopathic treatment: An EEG study

Abstract

While background music is often used during osteopathic treatment, it remains unclear whether it facilitates treatment, and, if it does, whether it is listening to music or jointly listening to a common stimulus that is most important. We created three experimental situations for a standard osteopathic procedure in which patients and practitioner listened either to silence, to the same music in synchrony, or (unknowingly) to different desynchronized montages of the same material. Music had no effect on heart rate and arterial pressure pre- and posttreatment compared to silence, but EEG measures revealed a clear effect of synchronized versus desynchronized listening: listening to desynchronized music was associated with larger amounts of mu-rhythm event-related desynchronization (ERD), indicating decreased sensorimotor fluency compared to what was gained in the synchronized music listening condition. This result suggests that, if any effect can be attributed to music for osteopathy, it is related to its capacity to modulate empathy between patient and therapist and, further, that music does not systematically create better conditions for empathy than silence.

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“…The patient, being aware of the different reasoning that can be applied, makes sense of precedent treatments and shares with the osteopathic practitioner the decisions regarding the proposed osteopathic treatment planning. The progressive sequence of the overall physiotherapeutic and psychotherapeutic treatment plan is centered on the clinical context, based on available guidelines [ 95 ], and is indicated by the circled numbers 1 and 2; the subsequent personalized osteopathic treatment plan defined by shared decision-making [ 41 , 51 ] to promote participative-active osteopathic treatment [ 71 , 87 ] with a combination of touch-based and mindfulness-oriented strategies [ 97 , 98 , 99 ] and synchronized music listening [ 100 ], as well as self-management counseling [ 101 ] and is marked by the numbers 3 and 4. Abbreviations: symptom-oriented physical examination (SPE), functional physical examination (FPE), familial symptoms (FS), osteopathic palpatory findings (OPF), structure-function test (SFCT), manual assessment tests of central sensitization (CS), two-point discrimination test (TPD), and Waddell’s sign (WS).…”

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“…Reduced spectral power in the mu wave range, which originates in premotor areas and inferior parietal lobule, is observed during both action execution and action observation (Bonini et al, 2022;Fox et al, 2016Fox et al, , 2016Hobson and Bishop, 2017;Jenson et al, 2020). Mu power suppression is also observed in music perception (Mercadié et al, 2014;Ross et al, 2022;Wang et al, 2023), and is further amplified when music perception is coupled with visual actions (Tanaka, 2021).…”