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Relaxation Techniques Treatment Report
What is Relaxation Techniques? A Relaxation technique is any method, process, procedure, or activity that helps a person to relax; to attain a state of increased calmness; or otherwise reduce levels of anxiety, stress or tension that can decrease muscle tension, lower the blood pressure and slow heart and breath rates.
Reasons used
93 patients in the community are using or have used Relaxation Techniques.
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| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients |
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| General health | 15 | 16% |
| Stress/anxiety | 14 | 15% |
| Treat my mood condition(s) | 12 | 12% |
| Awakening due to pain | 8 | 8% |
| Other | 5 | 5% |
| Pain | 4 | 4% |
| Anxiety | 3 | 3% |
| Support another treatment | 3 | 3% |
| Excessive daytime sleepiness (somnolence) | 3 | 3% |
| Treat Parkinson's | 2 | 2% |
| Panic attacks | 2 | 2% |
| Fibromyalgia | 1 | 1% |
| Mobility | 1 | 1% |
| disease-related symptoms | 1 | 1% |
| Emotional lability | 1 | 1% |
| Pain Control | 1 | 1% |
| Slow my MS progress | 1 | 1% |
| Memory problems | 1 | 1% |
| Stiffness/Spasticity | 1 | 1% |
Other lifestyle modifications patients are using for General health include Multivitamins, Omega 3 Fish Oil, and Vitamin C.
Schedules
Based on the patients currently using Relaxation Techniques.
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| 0.5hours as needed | 15minutes as needed | 1hours as needed | 1other as needed | 20 min as needed | 30 min as needed | 30minutes as needed | 5 min all the time (24/7) | 5minutes as needed | as needed | daily | 1 hr weekly | 0.15 minutes daily | 2 intl units weekly | 1 daily | 1 hr daily | 1 other daily | 2 hr daily | 2 other daily | 25 min weekly | 4 hr daily | 5 min daily | 5 other daily | 6 min daily | 10 min daily | 15 min daily | 20 min daily | 25 min daily | 30 min daily | 45 min daily | 60 min daily | 120 min daily | 150 mcg daily | ||
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Duration
How long current patients have been using Relaxation Techniques or how long patients were using Relaxation Techniques before stopping.
Currently Using Relaxation Techniques
Stopped Using Relaxation Techniques
Patient Reported Evaluations
Results from 10 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.
Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)
| Major | 67% | 2 |
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| Moderate | 33% | 1 |
General health
Side-effects (as an overall problem)
| Severe | 0% | 0 |
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| Moderate | 0% | 0 |
| Mild | 10% | 1 |
| None | 90% | 9 |
Top reported side-effects include: initial increase in pain
Summary results are based on 10 individual responses. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.
Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (2 of 10)
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- Nyrsaeans
- Sex: F
- Depression: 1
- Emotional: 1
- Compulsion: 2
- Anxiety: 2
- Mania: 3
- Physical: 2
- External Stress: Overwhelming
- 32 F
- Function: Moderate
- Distress: Moderate
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by Nyrsaeans
Oct 24, 2008
- EfficacyModerate
- Side-effectsNone
- General health
- Advice/Tips
- none
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0 helpful marks
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- skimpy
- Sex: F
- Depression: 0
- Emotional: 0
- Compulsion: 0
- Anxiety: 0
- Mania: 0
- Physical: 0
- External Stress: Moderate
- 57 F
- Function: High
- Distress: Low
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by skimpy
Dec 18, 2008
- EfficacyMajor
- Side-effectsNone
- Stress/anxiety
- See full evaluation
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0 helpful marks
Report created on November 07, 2009.