The role of regular home practice in the relaxation treatment of tension headache.
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TL;DR
This study evaluated the contribution of regular home practice in the treatment of tension headache with progressive muscle relaxation by giving 14 tension HA sufferers 10 sessions of standard PMR with home practice and application instructions while 13 additional patients received the same PMR training with no home practice or application instruction.
Abstract
This study evaluated the contribution of regular home practice in the treatment of tension headache (HA) with progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) by giving 14 tension HA sufferers 10 sessions (over 8 weeks) of standard PMR with home practice and application instructions while 13 additional patients received the same PMR training (except for the omission of cue-controlled relaxation) with no home practice or application instruction. A third group of 6 patients merely monitored HA activity. Both treated groups showed significant reduction in HA activity, whereas the symptom monitoring group did not change. The 2 treated groups did not differ. On a measure of clinically significant reduction in HA activity (at least 50% reduction in HA activity), however, the group receiving home practice instruction (50%) showed a trend (p = .056) to improve more than did those receiving PMR without home practice (15%).