Comments on: Music Reduces Pain For Babies During Circumcision

By: Alix

Alix — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:00:52 +0000

I just went in to the oral surgeon to get all 4 wisdom teeth removed, and I chose not to get sedated. I pulled out my iPod and asked the surgeon if I could play it during the procedure, and he said absolutely. I think we already know that music is helpful…babies just can't tell us what kind of music they like.

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By: Tom Tobin

Tom Tobin — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:20:18 +0000

How important IS MUSIC, when you are having the most sensitive part of your body cut off, anyway?
Do you think the kid is really hearing the music, while he is likely in the most pain he will ever feel?
Would you like to trade places with him? I'll give you a good pair of headphones.
Maybe there is some validity somewhere in the article. Maybe it is a good idea to play soothing music while you take blood out of a child, for necessary testing. But for unnecessary, painful cosmetic surgery?
I don't think so.
Try reading the article, replacing 'circumcision' with 'female circumcision', and see if it begins to bother you, as it rightfully should.
Welcome to planet Earth. OWWWWWWWW.
We can, and need to, do better. We need to stop this ugly practice, which is rapidly diminishing everywhere in the English speaking world, except for the US, where it is slowly diminishing. And we have to pay less attention to ill-thought out articles, mindlessly published, in places such as this.
We need to start using logic and reason, and not look to constantly excuse circumcision, like it is exceptional, like our drug addict cousin. There is no other operation which removes healthy parts from an unconsenting person. We need to stop pretending this is news or science. It is the science equivalent of the magazines you see at the grocery store, with 'circumcision' instead of 'Brad and Angelina'. Beat Crave is perpetuating junk science, to fill up their space, and make a little money doing it. Beat Crave needs to clean up its act a bit, if they want to maintain, or gain, credibility.

By: Tom Tobin

Tom Tobin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:31:59 +0000

In the last study I saw, even though pain relief is very highly recommended by the AMA and AAP, only 14% of doctors performing infant circumcision were using anesthesia.
How is this not torture?

By: IN any CASE

IN any CASE — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:03:42 +0000

In any case, the study of the MUSIC is important. Too many people here just focused on the issue of circumcision. That was just one example

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:39:56 +0000

How is a lullaby a "familiar" song to a baby that is one or two days old? They haven't been around long enough for anything to be "familiar"!
And if proper anesthesia was used, there would be NO pain (during the procedure, at least. Post-op would still be miserable for a week or so of course) and therefore no need to study the effectiveness of music as pain relief. So obviously anesthesia was not used. It almost never is for infant circumcision. SIck, but true.
WJA and Tom Tobin have got it right!

By: D - $

D - $ — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:02:49 +0000

Nowhere in this article does it say that anesthesia was not used IN ADDITION TO music. THINK, people.

By: Mutilated Jew

Mutilated Jew — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:20:41 +0000

This is astounding. If you don't look too closely, it looks like "scientific research". If you think about it for more than 10 seconds, you can see, -it really is surgery without anesthesia, -in a word torture. Sure, after you pass out, it is "less painful". Those clever Doctors!

Doctors have skipped the "hassle" of anesthesia on subjects when they were not important: poor,or black, Jewish, (at the hands of the Nazis) or simply babies, who "always cry".

By circumcising, they make a mockery of the "healing profession."

Tom Tobin's comments are great.

Jews have every right to circumsize themselves, just not their children. "Custom and tradition" do not make slavery or circumcision right.

By: Caroline

Caroline — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:54:16 +0000

Oh, sure it does! Just watch this and tell me that anything in the world could soothe or compensate a child for this. And WATCH it. Don't wuss out. A baby doesn't have that option.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQqOEylGW7k

By: Tom Tobin

Tom Tobin — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:17:52 +0000

If Beat Crave can't do better than print articles with content like this, perhaps it's time to consider going into another business.

By: Tom Tobin

Tom Tobin — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:16:51 +0000

You can test this for yourself.
First, cut your genitals with a knife.
Then, put on some soothing music.
Next, cut your genitals with a knife.
There now. Didn't it feel less painful the second time?

By: Music Therapist

Music Therapist — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:03:14 +0000

Here is an abstract for your viewing pleasure: http://jpo.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/12/1/...