Effects of Music Intervention on Stress in Concussed and Non-Concussed Athletes

Autor: Camille Léonard, Jeanne Marie Desaulniers-Simon, Diana Tat, Louis De Beaumont, Nathalie Gosselin
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Brain Sciences, Vol 11, Iss 11, p 1501 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2076-3425
DOI: 10.3390/brainsci11111501
Popis: Sport-related concussion is a serious public health issue affecting millions of individuals each year. Among the many negative side effects, emotional symptoms, such as stress, are some of the most common. Stress management is repeatedly cited by expert groups as an important intervention for this population. It was shown that music has relaxing effects, reducing stress through the activation of brain areas involved in emotions and pleasure. The objective of this study was to explore the effects of a music-listening intervention compared with silence on experimentally induced stress in concussed and non-concussed athletes. To this aim, four groups of athletes (non-concussed music, non-concussed silence, concussed music, and concussed silence) performed the Trier Social Stress Test, for which both physiological (skin conductance level) and self-reported stress measurements were taken. No significant difference was found in the pattern of stress recovery for self-reported measurements. However, the skin conductance results showed greater and faster post-stress recovery after listening to music compared with silence for concussed athletes only. Taken together, these results suggest that music could be an efficient stress management tool to implement in the everyday life of concussed athletes to help them prevent stress accumulation.
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