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Progressive muscle relaxation

Compared in the reviewR9 · 10 full-text papers, 7 abstract-only

At least one paper behind this review states what this option was measured against. That is not a ranking, and this option carries no evidence profile of its own.

Requirements it fills
  • body-based awareness
    Contemplative Practice · 4 papers put it here
How it is performed
  • Not specifically described in the paper.

    Denholm J. Aspy, M. Proeve (2017) · Psychological Reports · 10.1177/0033294116685867
    Mindfulness and Loving-Kindness Meditation
  • Participants sit comfortably with back straight, legs uncrossed, and feet flat on the floor. They start with slow breathing, then relax muscle groups sequentially (hands and arms, face and neck, chest and abdomen, legs), and count slowly during the silent practice. Duration: 12 minutes guided instruction + 3 minutes self-guided practice.

    G. Feldman, Jeffrey M. Greeson, Joanna Senville (2010) · Behaviour Research and Therapy · 10.1016/j.brat.2010.06.006
    Differential effects of mindful breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, and loving kindness meditation on decentering and negative reactions to repetitive thoughts
Dose

Nothing states what this option's dose measures — no library step prescribes this option and its review states no dose unit.

Dose and time, as the papers state it

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Equipment

Equipment is a property of the movement and is authored, never derived from the evidence corpus (docs/research/round2/ROUND2_KNOWN_CORRECTIONS.md §1). This option resolves to no catalogue exercise, so nothing has authored it yet.

Level and prerequisites

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Progression and regression

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Who should not do this

The papers behind this option report nothing on contraindications, which is not the same as saying there are none.

Setting, as the studies used it

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What the papers compared it with

No paper compares this option with another or calls it interchangeable with one.

A paper measuring one option against another does not make the two interchangeable, and it does not say which to choose. These are listed as what the papers did, and nothing here proposes a substitution.

Progressive muscle relaxation