Introduction: This study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of progressive muscle relaxation technique on generalized anxiety of elderly orthopedic patient in selected hospital of Pune City. Methods: Experimental and control group design was selected for the study. 40 elderly orthopaedics patients from selected hospitals of Pune City, were selected by random assignment technique.A Modified state trait Anxiety Inventory Scale was used to collect data from the subjects. Result: In the pre intervention stage, the anxiety level in elderly orthopaedic patients in experimental and control groups revealed that anxiety tended to differ from the mean by ± 5.16 in control group and ±8.15 in experimental group, whereas in post intervention stage, there was a significant mean anxiety reduction that tended to differ from the mean by ± 4.938 in control group and ± 4.426 in experimental group. Conclusion: In pre intervention, maximum anxiety in control group was 74 and in experimental group it was 85, whereas in post intervention, in control group the mean average of anxiety was 65.2 and 46.7 in experimental group. Findings indicated that the Jacobson Progressive muscle relaxation technique was effective for anxiety reduction among elderly orthopaedic patients. 

Keywords: Progressive muscle relaxation; Orthopaedics; Elderly patient.