Stress Management: Doing Progressive Muscle Relaxation

Stress Management: Doing Progressive Muscle Relaxation

What is progressive muscle relaxation?

Progressive muscle relaxation is a method to help you relax. You do a series of exercises in which you tense your muscles as you breathe in and relax them as you breathe out. You work on your muscle groups in a certain order.

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Patrice Burgess, MD - Family Medicine
Steven Locke, MD - Psychiatry
Last Updated:
May 15, 2012
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