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Stress Management: Doing 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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Progressive muscle relaxation is an exercise where you breathe slowly to relax your muscles.
TrueWhen you do progressive muscle relaxation, you do a series of exercises in which you tense your muscles as you breathe in and relax them as you breathe out.
FalseWhen you do progressive muscle relaxation, you do a series of exercises in which you tense your muscles as you breathe in and relax them as you breathe out.
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Stress Management: Doing Progressive Muscle Relaxation
| By: | Healthwise Staff | Last Revised: May 11, 2010 |
| Medical Review: | Kathleen Romito, MD - Family Medicine Lisa S. Weinstock, MD - Psychiatry | |
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