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Article: Relax?--Don't do it.
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- Bandolier
- Article date:
- July 1, 1998
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Relaxation techniques have been used to produce freedom from anxiety and skeletal muscle tension, and there have been suggestions that relaxation techniques can be useful for relief of acute and chronic pain. Two excellent systematic reviews [1,2] indicate that, at best, this is not proven.
Both reviews used extensive searching techniques to establish that all published material had been found. Inclusion criteria were full journal publication, relaxation being used alone and not as part of a multimodal therapy, randomised studies, pain outcomes and numbers of treated patients no fewer than 10 per group.
Acute pain
There were seven studies with ...