The expert-supervised therapy music "Music to Relax the Mind and Body - Helps Relieve Lower Back Pain and Stiff Shoulders" will be released on CD in advance on August 28th!

August 28, 2024

Music that relaxes the mind and body - Helps relieve lower back pain and stiff shoulders

The CD "Music to Relax the Mind and Body - Helps Relieve Lower Back Pain and Stiff Shoulders," which has been supervised by experts and has been verified for effectiveness, was released on Wednesday, August 28th.

This piece was designed and produced as a support tool to promote relaxation of the mind and body and to alleviate stress-related lower back pain and stiff shoulders.

The results of a music listening survey conducted on 3,563 monitor participants (aged 20 to 70) showed that after listening to music, there was a trend towards improvement in the severity of lower back pain, stress level, relaxation level, and changes in mental state compared to before listening.

The accompanying booklet, supervised by Kayoko Ito, an acupuncturist and author of "The Life-Changing Happiness School of Back Pain," explains the mechanism behind pain sensation and provides tips for relieving back pain and stiff shoulders.

Why not incorporate this music into yoga, exercise, or relaxing before sleep to take care of your mind and body?

■ Background of the project
According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare's regular Basic Survey on National Life, lower back pain and stiff shoulders rank high every year in terms of the rate of complaints, and based on statistical data for 2022, it is estimated that approximately 20 million Japanese people suffer from lower back pain and stiff shoulders.

The latest research on lower back pain has shown that, except in very few cases where the pain is caused by serious illness or injury, "psychological and social stress" is involved in the onset and chronicity of pain.

■Therapy music supervised by experts
This time, we asked Kayoko Ito, author of "The Life-Changing School of Happiness for Back Pain" and an acupuncturist, to supervise the project, and we have planned and produced support music for relieving back pain and stiff shoulders, focusing on the relaxing effects of music.

Some of the songs on this album, by Mitsuhiro, a musician who has worked on numerous projects in the healing music scene, are sprinkled with natural sounds such as birdsong and flowing water that contain 1/f fluctuations, which are said to be good for health.

■The booklet (16 pages) that comes with the CD contains commentary
The booklet includes information such as the concepts behind the songs, the mechanism behind pain sensation, five habits to relieve lower back pain and stiff shoulders, and verification results for the songs.

[Verification of the effects of music]
3,563 monitors with subjective symptoms of lower back pain were asked to use an NRS (numerical rating scale) to rate the level of their current lower back pain, their level of stress, their level of relaxation, and changes in their mental state on an 11-point scale from 0 to 10 before and after listening to music.The results showed that after listening to music, all of these showed an improvement compared to before listening.

These results suggest that the music in this album may be an effective support tool for relieving lower back pain.

<Changes in the severity of lower back pain>
Before listening to music, the score was 6.2, but after listening to music, it decreased to 4.8 (Graph 1).

<Changes in stress levels>
Before listening to music, the score was 6.8, but after listening to music, it decreased to 4.2 (Graph 2).

<Changes in the degree of relaxation>
Before listening to music, the score was 4.2, but after listening to music, it increased to 6.2 (Graph 3).

<Changes in mental state>
Before listening to music, the score was 4.4, but after listening to music, it increased to 5.9 (Graph 4).

[Track List]
1. Calm Breath
2. Deep Relax - Release tension
3. Relaxing in the sun
4. Courage and Action
5. Listen to your heart's voice - Spiritual Home
6. Be grateful and let go of your emotions - Beautiful Sky
7. When Anxiety Turns into Relief - Light
8. Flow (feat. Chopin's Berceuse)

Music: Mitsuhiro
Graduated from the Department of Composition at Kunitachi College of Music in 1985.
After belonging to the environmental music production group Biosic Music Laboratory, he founded Nagano Music Laboratory in 1991.
While advocating for a better sound environment, his life's work is to "arrange," "direct," and "enhance" the environment with sound.
He pursues the connection between nature and music, and expresses his own compositional methods, which are created from that perspective, through his writing.

Supervised by: Kayoko Ito

Born in Osaka in 1967. Lives in Tokyo. Acupuncturist.
While working for a company, he was diagnosed with "lower back and lower limb pain due to a herniated disc" and was repeatedly admitted to and discharged from the hospital.
After obtaining his acupuncture and moxibustion license in 2000, he opened an acupuncture and moxibustion counseling clinic in Kanagawa Prefecture.
In 2016, he published "The Life-Changing Happy Back Pain School" (President Publishing), a novelization of a cognitive behavioral therapy group program, and in 2020, he published "The Book to Read If You Think Your Back Hurts" (Nikkei BP).
Currently, he works as a chronic pain psychotherapist, mainly providing individual consultations, holding group therapy sessions, and running an online community.

Product name: Music to relax the mind and body - Supports relief of lower back pain and stiff shoulders
Music: Mitsuhiro
Supervised by: Kayoko Ito
Running time: Approximately 61 minutes (8 songs)
JAN: 4961501653958
Product Number: DLMF-3926
Release date: Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Price: 1,980 yen (tax included)
Publisher: Della Co., Ltd.

■Product page (you can listen to all songs)
https://www.della.co.jp/products/dlmf-3926

[Staff]
Music Composed, Arranged and Performed by Mitsuhiro
Producer: Makiko Maeda
Design: Suzuka Nakamura (SDR.inc)
Mastering Engineer: Kunihito Ikeda
Executive Producer: Hideo Utsugi
Cooperation: Sound Wellness Lab.

▼See product page▼ (You can listen to all songs)
Music to relax the mind and body - Supports relief of lower back pain and stiff shoulders / Mitsuhiro