Does music help during knee replacement surgery?
Part of Mental health, Pain clinical trials.
This study tests if listening to music during knee replacement surgery under spinal anesthesia can lower anxiety, pain, and stress hormone levels. It may help make the experience calmer for patients.
Summary written for real people, not researchers, by Clin2.
Who can take part
- You are 18 years or older.
- This is your first knee replacement surgery on one knee.
- You will have spinal anesthesia (awake but numb from the waist down).
- You can talk and communicate normally.
- You are in good enough health for surgery (ASA class 1, 2, or 3).
- You have no current or past neurological or psychiatric condition.
- You can have your surgery scheduled as the first case of the day (for cortisol testing).
Quick eligibility check
Answer a few plain-language questions, based on this study's own requirements, to get a preliminary sense of fit.
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