One study found that twelve weeks of progressive relaxation do not change resting systolic blood pressure in women archers ยท What changed https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/health/progressive-relaxation-blood-pressure-archers Changes to this claim in Matteo Campagna's evidence registry: its status, its year-by-year history, revisions of the page. en-gb Claim page revised, version 2https://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/health/progressive-relaxation-blood-pressure-archersThere is a single study, of thirteen Korean university women archers of a good standard, with eleven years of practice on average, who do progressive muscle relaxation for twelve weeks, three sessions a week of fifteen to twenty minutes, with no comparison group. Resting systolic pressure goes from 116.7 to 113.0 millimetres of mercury, a difference that is not significant (p = 0.82), and heart rate from 73.8 to 69.7 beats a minute, again not significant. Diastolic pressure, on the other hand, falls slightly, from 69.8 to 67.5 millimetres (p = 0.03), so the result has to be stated precisely: systolic does not move, diastolic drops by two millimetres. With thirteen people a small effect on systolic pressure would not have shown up anyway, and without a control group even the fall in diastolic pressure may come from the season, the training load or getting used to the measurement. There is a more basic limit too: resting blood pressure is not why an archer does relaxation, and the study measures neither anxiety nor score.claim:rilassamento-progressivo-pressione:revision:2026-10-12:2Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT "One study found that twelve weeks of progressive relaxation do not change resting systolic blood pressure in women archers" added to the registry as Reportedhttps://matteocampagna.com/en/registry/health/progressive-relaxation-blood-pressure-archersclaim:rilassamento-progressivo-pressione:new_claim:2026-10-07:riportatoWed, 07 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMT