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Listening to music has been shown to produce which of the following effects in patients recovering from cardiac surgery?

decreased pain
increased anxiety
unchanged heart rate
increased heart rate

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Listening to music decreases pain in patients recovering from cardiac surgery. The explanation for this is music activates sensory pathways in your nervous system to compete with pain pathways, promoting emotional reactions and engaging cognitive attention. In other words, music provides meaningful intellectual and emotional engagement to decrease pain.
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