You know that happy feeling you get when one of your favorite songs comes on the radio?

That should give you an inkling about what music therapy can do for people in pain.

Music is the medicine of the mind they say. And Lillian Lucas of Germantown needs a large dose.

Lillian just had her second leg amputated and the mysterious phantom pain of her lost limbs is agonizing.

But music therapy makes it better.

"It soothed my soul. It really did," Lillian said.

There is evidence when a college trained music therapist like Karen Dennery is at work, music can lower high blood pressure and rapid heart beat and reduce depression and sleeplessness.

But most of all, it can help eliminate pain.

In fact a study at Temple University finds people in chronic pain can actually find relief from their pain with just one session of music therapy.

There, Dr. Cheryl Dileo has determined the sound of a rain-stick heals his pain.

"Music is able to enhance our moods which influences our pain," says Dileo. "Music is able to serve as a distraction from the pain. And music also helps."

Dileo says the effect of music can block some of the sensation of pain through the spinal cord.

Her studies find for some people, music therapy can totally eliminate the need for pain medication.