Abstract

Goal: the analysis and review of the effectiveness of different modalities of Physiotherapy treatment in primary dysmenorrhea. Material and method: the research has been carried out in Medline, Scopus and PEDro data bases by using key words such as “primary dysmenorrhea”, “physi*” “manual therapy”, “massage” “acupuncture”, “electric stimulation therapy” and “exercise”. Design: a systematic review of randomised clinical trials. Participants: women with primary dysmenorrhea. The main considered variables were the pain strength, pain duration and dysmenorrheic symptoms. Results: the search identify 1102 articles in the data bases., and 10 of them were selected to be completely analysed. The manual therapy group revealed an important improvement on pain severity; the group of acupunction revealed an important improvement in the pain intensity and in dysmenorrheic symptoms; the group of electrotherapy revealed an significant reduction in pain severity and general pain; the group of acupressure revealed an important improvement in the pain intensity, pain duration and in tmost aspects of their lifestyle and the group of exercise revealed a significant reduction of pain intensity. Conclusion: this systematic review could find important improvements on pain intensity after performing different interventions (manual therapy, acupuncture, electrotherapy, acupressure and exercises) in patients with primary dysmenorrhea.