abstract background: hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are the main cause of maternal and fetal mortality; however, they have no definite effective treatment. the researchers aimed to study the effects of progressive muscular relaxation and breathing control technique on blood pressure (bp) during pregnancy. materials and methods: this three‑group clinical trial was conducted in mashhad healt...

Introduction MR imaging of cartilage is widely accepted as a tool in the evaluation of cartilage. Originally such studies were limited to morphological sequences, but increasingly MR imaging is being used to produce parameter maps (i.e. relaxation or diffusion constants) which allows a biochemical evaluation of the cartilage. One such parameter which has been extensively used is the T2 relaxati...

BACKGROUND A review of the effectiveness of relaxation techniques for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients has shown inconsistent results, but studies have varied in terms of technique and outcome measures. AIM To determine patient preference for different relaxation techniques. METHODS Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients were presented with six techniques via a DVD and...

The ubiquity of threshold voltage relaxation is demonstrated in samples with both conventional and high-k dielectrics following various stress conditions. A technique based on recording short traces of relaxation during each measurement phase of a standard measure-stress-measure sequence allows monitoring and correcting for the otherwise-unknown relaxation component. The properties of relaxatio...

The problem treated here is to determinethe viscosity effect on stresses, temperature change and chemical potential in a circular plate. The mathematical formulation is applied to two theories of thermoelastic diffusion developed by Sherief et al. [27] with one relaxation time and Kumar and Kansal [9]with two relaxation times. Laplace and Hankel transform techniques are used to obtain the expre...

BACKGROUND Anxiety among patients after surgery can affect their physiological and psychological well-being. The aim of this study was to investigate and compare the effects of Benson's relaxation and rhythmic breathing techniques on postoperative anxiety in candidates for the mastectomy surgery. METHODS This randomized controlled clinical trial study was conducted with ninety patients in 201...

Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the most common chronic diseases of the central nervous system. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of psychological training combined‎ with gradual muscular stress relaxation technique on QOL of patients with MS. Materials and Methods: This triple-blind, controlled, clinical trial was conducted on 60 patients with MS who...