The Effect of Pelvic Rocking Exercise and Buteyko Exercise on Reducing Primary Dysmenorrhea Pain Levels

Abstract

Background: Dysmenorrhea is cramping pain and is often followed by lowerback pain, nausea and vomiting, headache and diarrhea. Dysmenorrhearefers to the overall pain symptoms that arise during menstruation, there are2 types of dysmenorrhea, namely, primary and secondary dysmenorrhea.is a cyclic menstrual pain without pathological abnormalities in the pelvis iscalled Primary dysmenorrhea. There are 2 types of Management primarydysmenorrhea which are pharmacological and non-pharmacological.The treatment for Non-pharmacological can be done with pelvic rockingexercise and Buteyko Exercise. The movements in pelvic rocking exerciseand Buteyko Exercise can stimulate the body to release endorphins whichfunction as natural sedative hormones, and can also facilitate blood flow tothe uterus so that pain is reduced.Purpose:The effect of pelvic rocking exercise and Buteyko Exercise onreducing pain in primary dysmenorrhea was The purpose of this research.Methods: This research is a quantitative study with a quasi-experimentaldesign, pre-test and post-test designs. Nonequivalent control group design.The amount of the sample are 58 people by using purposive samplingtechnique. The research instrument used a standard operating proceduresheet for pelvic rocking exercise and Buteyko Exercise, a monitoring sheet,a stop watch and a numeric rating scale pain measurement sheet. Thehypothesis is tested by using the independent T Test.Results: Before the intervention, the p-value was 0.063. The results of thisresearch was p value 0.001.Conclusion: This research can also be used as input for nurses to make newdecisions in improving the quality of nursing care with non-pharmacologicaltherapeutic approaches. There is an effect of pelvic rocking exercise andButeyko Exercise on reducing pain in primary dysmenorrhea. The results ofthis research can be used as a contribution of thoughts and references as amore in-depth study of pain reduction in primary dysmenorrhea.