Neuromuscular relaxation" is a process to the patient a series of exercises that reduce neural activity and contractile skeletal muscle tension.
It includes a variety of muscle contraction performed by the patient according to the original instructions. Each specific type of emotional arousal corresponds to a voltage of a certain group of muscles.
Muscle relaxation (relaxation) is used to deal with anxiety and emotional stress, and to prevent their occurrence. Beginning of neuromuscular relaxation is associated with the name of the American physiologist E. Jacobson.
Therapy is indicated for diseases such as encephalopathy with asthenic, vascular, hypothalamic syndromes , neuroses, tension headaches syndrome vegetative dystonia, migraine and depression.
Neuromuscular relaxation is not desirable in diseases such as Parkinson's Disease, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, and cancer pathology of the nervous system, consequences of injuries and diseases of the spinal cord and brain, psychiatric disorders and drug addiction.