Singing can lower blood pressure

There is a new method of lowering blood pressure of a patient before he underwent the operation with a sing. The doctors believe it after discovering that singing can lower blood pressure a 76-year-old female patient who suffered severe preoperative hypertension prior to total knee replacement surgery for osteoarthritis (OA).

Although patients unresponsive to aggressive pharmacological intervention, his blood pressure dropped dramatically when he was able to sing some songs. "This is a traditional therapy for patients with preoperative hypertension," said the doctor. He explained that this drug-based therapies involve diuretics, beta blockers, calcium channel blocker, and angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE).

These drugs used to lower blood pressure for the patient to undergo surgery, but unfortunately not all patients respond to this treatment. In patients unresponsive to standard therapy, hypertension alternative intervention is required.

"Some studies show that listening to music can be effective in reducing blood pressure and soothe or distract the patient before surgery. Fatherly, stress and anxiety was reduced," explained Nina Niu, researchers from Harvard Medical School in Boston.

"The results of this study expand the medical evidence to show that music and singing have potential therapeutic effects of surgery." Hasi study appears in the April 2011 edition of the journal Arthritis Care and Research