Tracks that produce “chills” could act as a painkiller, new study reveals

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A man in a red shirt is sleeping with a dog that produces chills.

New research from Montreal-based McGill University suggests that listening to your favourite music could have an effect “as strong as over-the-counter painkillers.”

In conversation with The Guardian, Darius Valevicius, first author of the research project, said that “we can approximate that favourite music reduced pain by about one point on a 10-point scale, which is at least as strong as painkillers like Advil [ibuprofen] under the same conditiions.”

Music can…