How can relaxation therapies relieve pain?

Because pain is so elusive and difficult to measure, it lends itself well to mind/body therapies. Relaxation therapies are extremely effective in decreasing pain when used in conjunction with moist heat applications and medications. Often when patients take pain medications over a long period of time, their bodies adjust to that level of medication.

However, when patients combine stress management and relaxation therapies along with pain medications, most report having fewer episodes of debilitating pain and some patients even take less pain medication. When they add moist heat applications (or hot baths or showers) to the medications and relaxation therapies, they experience even greater results with less pain and increased mobility. Although no one is sure just how relaxation exercises work to decrease pain, some researchers believe that muscle relaxation might reduce the number of pain signals delivered to the nervous system.

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