Informative Essay On Relaxation Therapy

Relaxation Therapy Everyone has gone through a time where they feel stressed, especially if you are a sophomore nursing student dealing with the pressure from all of your classes on top of the rest of your busy life. Although small amounts of stress can be a good thing, too much of it can lead to a negative impact on your health. Some may experience physical and mental symptoms such as muscle tension, increased respirations, hypertension, stomach pain, decreases or increased peristalsis, insomnia, depression, headaches, and anxiety. It can even worsen symptoms of conditions that you are dealing with such as asthma or the process of healing. So what can be done to help keep the stress of your life under control? One option is Relaxation Therapy. In the medical dictionary, Relaxation Therapy is defined as the “use of techniques to encourage and elicit relaxation for the purpose of decreasing undesirable signs and symptoms such as pain, muscle tension, or anxiety” (Medical Dictionary, n.d.). This could be a video or tape that you listen to that focuses your attention on breathing and visualization all in efforts to make you feel more relaxed. I explored a quantitative research article from the Journal of Clinical Nursing that discussed an experiment between relaxation and …show more content…
Some of the things mentioned involved the fact that the study could have been done on a larger group with a variety of different ethnicities. This study was done on only 91 patients who were all Chinese. This could have impacted the outcomes because, as stated in the text, “older Chinese adults are reserved and do not readily express emotion” (Lin, 2010, p. 606). Other limitations of this article is that there is not a lot of measurable objective data used. All they used to back up what they found is the ratings of pain and anxiety from the patients and a measure of blood