Progressive muscular relaxation
Progressive muscular relaxation

Background

Progressive muscular relaxation is a type of relaxation therapy and technique used to decrease muscular tension and stress. It involves deliberately tensing and relaxing certain muscle groups.

People use this for...

Progressive muscular relaxation has been used for medical conditions caused by stress.

Pregnancy And Lactation: There is insufficient reliable evidence about the safety of progressive muscular relaxation in pregnancy and lactation. However, there is no reason to expect safety issues.

INSUFFICIENT RELIABLE EVIDENCE TO RATE

Insomnia. Preliminary clinical research suggests that progressive muscular relaxation may not decrease the time to fall asleep or increase sleep duration in insomnia, but may increase the patient's subjective feeling of being well-rested.

More evidence is needed to rate progressive muscular relaxation for this use.

Natural Medicines rates effectiveness based on scientific evidence according to the following scale: Effective, Likely Effective, Possibly Effective, Possibly Ineffective, Likely Ineffective, Ineffective, and Insufficient Evidence to Rate.

Dosing & administration

    Adverse effects

    Interactions with pharmaceuticals

    None known.

    Interactions with herbs & supplements

    None known.

    Interactions with foods

    None known.

    Interactions with lab tests

    Interactions with diseases

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