VARIATION OF BLOOD PRESSURE WITH SKELETAL MUSCLE TENSION AND RELAXATION
Authors: Edmund Jacobson
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1939)

Article1 February 1939VARIATION OF BLOOD PRESSURE WITH SKELETAL MUSCLE TENSION AND RELAXATIONEDMUND JACOBSON, Ph.D., M.D., F.A.C.P.EDMUND JACOBSON, Ph.D., M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-12-8-1194 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe welter of enumerated causes of blood pressure in health and in essential hypertension suggests that perhaps among them we have been neglecting some factor more or less familiar to all, the clear-cut recognition of which might aid us in the long run to understand problems of high blood pressure a little better. Whatever factor we suspect obviously can be better estimated if we can succeed in measuring it simultaneously with the blood pressure.†Current opinion on the significance of vascular tonus is summarized1in a recent review by Fritz Lange.2In hypertonia the blood vessels are evidently hyperexcitable. That...References1. PEDERSEN AH: A method of producing experimental chronic hypertension in the rabbit, Arch. Path. and Lab. Med., 1927, iii, 912. COLLINS, D. A.: Hypertension from constriction of arteries of denervated kidneys, Am. Jr. Physiol., 1936, cxvi, 3, 616. Google Scholar2. LANGE F: Hypertension in relation to arteriosclerosis, in Cowdry's Arteriosclerosis, N. Y., 1933, Chap. 18, 501-531. Google Scholar3. HOCHREIN M: Ueber den Kreislaufmechanismus bei der Hypertension, Arch. f. exper. Path. u. Pharmakol., 1928, cxxxiii, 325. CrossrefGoogle Scholar4. JACOBSON E: Use of relaxation in hypertensive states, N. Y. Med. Jr., 1920, cxi, 419. Google Scholar5. 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JACOBSON E: Progressive relaxation, University of Chicago Press, 1929. Google Scholar9. JACOBSON E: Electrical measurements concerning muscular contraction (tonus) and the cultivation of relaxation in man, studies on arm flexors, Am. Jr. Physiol., 1934, cvii, 230. Google Scholar10. WEBER E: De Tactu, in Annotationes anat. et phys., programma collecta, 1851; Die Lehre vom Tastsinne und Gemeingefühle, 1851. Google Scholar11. JACOBSON E: Variation in muscular tonus, Am. Jr. Physiol., 1935, cxiii, 1, 71. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Chicago, Illinois*Aided by a grant from the National Research Council.Aid also is gratefully acknowledged from the Bell Telephone Laboratories, including indebtedness to the late Mr. H. D. Arnold for his kindly interest and to Messrs. H. A. Frederick and D. G. Blattner.Preliminary or partial reports were read before the Chicago Society of Internal Medicine, Feb. 24, 1936, The American Physiological Society, March 27, 1936, and the National Academy of Sciences, November 18, 1936.From the Physiological Laboratory of the University of Chicago and the Laboratory for Clinical Physiology, Chicago.The experiments were conducted with the aid of William M. Lees.†Hypertension of cardiac and renal origin lie beyond the scope of the present article. 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