Chronic Tension: Describe Duration, Context, and Daily Impact
Chronic tension describes a repeated experience, not a single diagnosis. Location, duration, changes in function, and accompanying symptoms are more useful to a clinician than assuming every persistent tight feeling is stored stress.
Chronic tension describes a repeated experience, not a single diagnosis. Location, duration, changes in function, and accompanying symptoms are more useful to a clinician than assuming every persistent tight feeling is stored stress.
A worked situation: Neck
Fictional example. A reader has recurring neck tightness and sometimes hand tingling. The tingling changes the care question; a relaxation exercise does not establish why both occur.
