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Background: Adolescence represents the transitional period linking childhood to adulthood and involves physical, biological and psychological changes in a girl. The adolescent and young adult years are a time of both change and stability. Adolescence begins with puberty & extend from 12 to 20 years of age. Menstruation is the cyclic uterine bleeding experienced by the most of the women of reproductive age. Normal menstruation represents the cyclic shedding of the uterine secretary endometrial because of a decline in estradiol and progesterone production caused by a regressing corpus luteum. Method: A pre-experimental research design was used present study. Total sample for the study used were 60 subjects with pain during menstruation by convenient sampling technique. The tools used to collect the data in the study were Numerical pain assessment scale. The data was collected from subject in selected High School Kawar Kishtwar, after explaining them the purpose of study. Findings: In pre-test 50(83.3%) sample had moderate pain, 10(16.7%) had severe pain whereas 0(0%) had mild and no pain respectively. In post-test 27(45%) sample had mild pain, 23(38.3%) had moderate pain,9(15%) had no pain whereas 1(1.7%) had severe pain after intervention respectively. Mean in post-test (2.3) was lower than mean in pre-test (5.1). Calculated p value is .000001 which showed the significant difference between posttest pain level and pretest pain level. This study shows that muscle relaxation technique is useful in pain during menstruation among adolescent girls facing dysmenorrhea