Effects of relaxation intervention in phase II cardiac rehabilitation: Replication and extension

Effects of relaxation therapy on psychologic distress and symptom status in older Chinese patients with heart failure

“…Practicing PMRT allows older people with heart failure to retreat mentally from the stressful disease experience and helps them get rid of obsessive negative thoughts [48]. These findings conform to those of other studies on relaxation in patients with heart failure [22][23][24][25][26] or other cardiac diagnoses [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. The medium treatment effect of PMRT in reducing the psychologic distress of older Chinese heart failure patients also echoes the results of a previous meta-analysis of relaxation studies [34].…”

“…Mounting evidence have consistently indicated that relaxation therapy is effective in alleviating anxiety and depressive moods [14][15][16][17]; reducing sympathetic-related manifestations on cardiovascular variables such as blood pressure [14], heart rate [15], and heart rate variability [18]; and lowering the frequency of angina attack and supraventricular tachycardia [19,20] in patients with hypertension and coronary artery disease. A review of two decades of relaxation studies (n=27) in patients with ischemic heart disease indeed generated three key conclusions [21]: First, relaxation therapy is effective in reducing anxiety, heart rate, angina, vocational impairment, and mortality.…”

Progressive Muscle Relaxation therapy in Anxiety: A Neurophysiological Study

“…This finding is consistent with the works of Neves [12] whose work concluded that patients who participated in relaxation therapy improved their cardiovascular risk factors profile. This findings is also consistent with findings of van Dixhoorn et al and Collins and Rice [13,14]. Studies by Blumenthal JA, Collins and Kanji.N also showed a reduction in PR but no change in SBP and DBP [15,16].…”

Psychosocial Approach in the Rehabilitation of Heart Patients: Review

“…20,38 Birçok KR programında stresli durumlarla baş edebilmek, stresten sakınmak ve stresi tanımlamak için meditasyon, gevşeme, solunum egzersizi, yoga gibi diğer stres azaltma teknikleri eğitimi gibi stres yönetimi workshopları da sunulmuştur. 59,60 Stres yönetim programlarının amacı, stresörleri ve strese duygusal ve fiziksel yanıtları tanımlamak, genel stres seviyesini azaltmak ve etkili baş etme stratejilerini geliştirerek hastaya yardımcı olmaktır. Bu amaç için kullanılan çeşitli teknikler; rahatlama/gevşeme terapisi, meditasyon, bilişsel terapi, anksiyete yönetimi ve uygulamalı fizyopsikolojik geribildirim (biofeedback) tekniğidir.…”