What is the difference between tranquilizers and muscle relaxers?!
Question: Tranquilizer - A drug that tends to have a calming effect, and is unique in inducing drowsiness without impairing ready arousal and in restraining hyperactivity without inducing coma or arrest of respiratory muscles. This is like Xanax, Valium, Librium and Klonopin.
Also anti-psychotic tranquilizers like Mellaril are Haldol can be used as well.
Muscle relaxants are a drug that reduces muscle contracting by blocking the transmission of nerve impulses or by decreasing the excitability of the motor end plate. These drugs are Soma, Skelaxin, Baclofen are typical drugs used for this indication.
Hope this helps!
Answers: Tranquilizer - A drug that tends to have a calming effect, and is unique in inducing drowsiness without impairing ready arousal and in restraining hyperactivity without inducing coma or arrest of respiratory muscles. This is like Xanax, Valium, Librium and Klonopin.
Also anti-psychotic tranquilizers like Mellaril are Haldol can be used as well.
Muscle relaxants are a drug that reduces muscle contracting by blocking the transmission of nerve impulses or by decreasing the excitability of the motor end plate. These drugs are Soma, Skelaxin, Baclofen are typical drugs used for this indication.
Hope this helps!
Tranquilizers work by attaching themselves to receptors in the brain. They can be effective as muscle relaxants, but in an indirect way.
Muscle relaxants work directly on the muscles.
Years ago tranquillizers were categorized as major or minor. The drugs Melleril and Haldol mentioned in an earlier post, chlorpromazine and other phenothiazines are in this same category.
Valium and xanax fall into the minor tranquilizers, however Valium is often used as a muscle relaxation as well as helping with anxiey it also works to relax muscles. There are other drugs that are specifically muscle relaxants but I am not familiar with these.