This article is in our articles featuring pain management techniques to help you decrease and cope with pain. It’s your at-home pain management class!
Relaxation exercise help reduce pain by helping you be more relaxed.
There are several ways to use this exercise:
- read through the exercise and then do it from memory (it doesn’t have to be done exactly as I’ve written it)
- listen to it on this website
- tape record the exercise yourself, then play it back for yourself to do (you can even do this on your cellphone)
- have someone else read or record the exercise for you
Your assignment: Do the relaxation exercise at least once a day.