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Musicians Don't Feel Pain Like The Rest of Us, Surprising Study
Reveals
It's well known that learning to play an instrument can offer benefits
beyond just musical ability. Indeed, research shows it's a great
activity for the brain - it can enhance our fine motor skills,
language acquisition, speech, and memory - and it can even help to
keep our brains younger.
After years of working with musicians and witnessing how they persist
in musical training despite the pain caused by performing thousands of repetitive movements, I started wondering: if musical training can
reshape the brain in so many ways, can it also change the way
musicians feel pain, too?
This is the question that my colleagues and I set out to answer in our
new study.
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After pain was induced, the musicians reported experiencing less
discomfort overall. And while the hand map in non-musicians' brains
shrank after just two days of pain, the maps in musicians' brains
remained unchanged - amazingly, the more hours they had trained, the
less pain they felt.
https://www.sciencealert.com/musicians-dont-feel-pain-like-the-rest-of-us-surprising-study-reveals
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