Why the study?
Hypertension is a leading cause of death requiring nonpharmacological therapies like stress management, motivating an evaluation of progressive muscle relaxation on blood pressure reduction.
Does progressive muscle relaxation reduce blood pressure in patients with hypertension?
Population
52 hypertensive patients
Comparison
Progressive muscle relaxation vs control group
Design
Quasi-experimental pretest and posttest design with a control group
Authors
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Does not support PMR superiority over control; leaves open adjunctive role pending randomized trials.
Does progressive muscle relaxation reduce blood pressure in patients with hypertension?
Progressive muscle relaxation reduces blood pressure from baseline in hypertensive patients, though it did not show a statistically significant difference compared to the control group post-intervention.
Rosdiana et al. (2019) studied this question.
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