EFFECTIVENESS OF PHYSIOTHERAPY IN PRIMARY DYSMENORRHEA. A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
Keywords:
primary dysmenorrhea, Physiotherapy, manual therapy, acupuncture, electrotherapy, exercise.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”, “elec-tric stimulation therapy” and “exercise”. Design: a systematic review of randomised clinical trials. Participants:
omen 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 se-lected 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 acu-pressure 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, acu-puncture, electrotherapy, acupressure and exercises) in patients with primary dysmenorrhea.
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