Review Based Analysis on Application of Relaxation Measures in All Age Groups To Alleviate Chronic Pain

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to find out the effectiveness of comprehensive methods of relaxation techniques in reducing the chronic pain and improving the quality of life. Pain is an unpleasant feeling making life more difficult causing psychological distress. Pain may be presented in many different ways; intense, sharp, nagging, burning, dull, unbearable, tender and so on. It may be classified into acute and chronic pain depending upon the duration of the pain one experiences. It is very individualized experience with varied perception of pain and tolerance or threshold of a person. The pain which lasts more than 3 months is considered as chronic pain. The mental health of an individual is disturbed to a certain extent with the chronic pain as such it may push them to suffer from stress and depression. Design /Methodology/Approach: Secondarydata collected usingGoogle search engine here. Manyauthors used many a different methods namely randomized control trial, systematic review and meta-analysis of literatures, evidence based therapeutic intervention. Finding /Result: There are certain non-pharmacological relaxation methods practiced to relieve the chronic pain namely; progressive relaxation technique, Benson relaxation technique, mindfulnessmeditation and so on. Through this article we are going to review articles using Google search engine where they used the relaxation techniques on chronic pain sufferers from different age groups of adults and children. The efficacy of relaxation methods are also discussed in alleviating chronic pain. Several other benefits such as reduction in anxiety and depression, improvement on overall wellbeing and better coping methods or strategies were also studied in this analysis. The effective relaxation techniques showed significant improvement in the reduction of chronic pain in a long run, when practiced regularly and they are more popular because they are easy to learn and practice. At the same time one can select the convenient comprehensive measure of their choice. Originality/ Value: The relaxation techniques practiced in every reviewed article is different and effective. The main selected measures are; progressive relaxation technique, Benson relaxation technique, mindfulness-meditation. These comprehensive techniques are available without any financial burden and easy to practice. Paper Type: Secondary source research review and analysis.