« L'apprentissage de la relaxation appliquée (RA) peut-il améliorer la diminution de la flexibilité physiologique observée chez les sujets souffrant d'anxiété généralisée ? »

In the patient suffering from generalized anxiety, various physiological modifications are documented in clinical practice as in research. For example, one notes a reduction in the physiological reactivity to the nonspecific stressors observed. This single case study uses a computerized protocol including alternate phases of stress and relaxation. In order to evaluate the impact of a treatment with applied relaxation (AR), psychometric and clinical evaluations are carried out, and several physiological parameters are measured at three times (before, during and after the intervention). We have tried to determine up to what point AR modifies the psychophysiological reactivity observed in a patient suffering from GAD, and whether this modification is accompanied by alterations in the clinical symptomatology.