Relaxation is an effective method especially in patients who experience chronic pain.

Breathing exercises and relaxation techniques reduce oxygen consumption, respiratory

frequency, heart frekuency, and muscle tension, which stops the cycle of paint-anxiety-muscle
tension. while the distraction technique is diversion from the foccus of attention to the stimulus
to the other. The technique can help deal with pain based on the teory that activated reticular
displacement of the pain stimulus. Pleasant stimuli from the outside can also stimulate
endorphin secretion, so that the pain stimulus felt by the client is reduced.both of these
positions have advantages and disadvantages.

Benefits of relaxation among others relaxation will reduce anxiety assosiated with pain or
stress, reducing muscle pain, helping individuals to forget pain, increase the effectiveness of
other pain therapies, reducing feelings of helplessness and depression arising from pain. While
distraction between them while the benefits of using this distraksi techniques so that someone
who receives this technique feels more comfortable, relaxed, and feel in a more pleasant
situation.

Disadvantages of relaxsation and distraction is the implementation of relaxation techniques

requires a relatively long time, the implementation requires a conducive place, patients who are
less able, to focus their minds can hamper relaxation techniques, cannot be done in an
unconscious patient

The conclusion is a relaxation techniques are more effective than distraction techniques in
reducing pain. Because pain relief in general increases with the number of sensory modalities
used, the combination of distraction and relaxation techniques will be more effective in
reducing pain intensity.