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- D Elton and G Stanley.
- Department of Psychology, Melbourne University.
- Aust J Physiother. 1976 Sep 1; 22 (3): 121-3.
AbstractThe effectiveness of relaxation techniques as a means of increasing pain threshold and pain tolerance and of decreasing anxiety was tested. Forty-two physiotherapy students were divided into experimental and control groups and tested on pain threshold, pain tolerance and anxiety. The 21 experimental group subjects were given one session of relaxation and then re-tested. Their results showed that a single session of relaxation significantly increased their pain threshold and pain tolerance and decreased their anxiety about the situation. No such changes were noted when the control group was re-tested. Copyright © 1976 Australian Physiotherapy Association. Published by . All rights reserved.
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