Original Research Article
Year: 2019 | Month: May | Volume: 9 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 185-190
Effect of High Frequency Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation on Dermatomal Site Menstrual Pain among Adolescent Girls with Primary Dysmenorrhea
Manisha Uttam1, Anuradha Lehri2
1PhD Researcher, Department of Sports science, Punjabi University, Patiala.
2Assistant Professor, Department of Sports science, Punjabi University, Patiala
Corresponding Author: Manisha Uttam
ABSTRACT
Background: Primary dysmenorrhea (PD) is a cramping and spasmodic pain in the lower abdomen, back and lower quadrant during the menstruation period. Objective: To evaluate the effect of high TENS on dermatomal level among adolescent girls of PD.
Methodology: 140 adolescent girls of 14-19 years of age were randomly allocated into two groups of Experimental and Control group using sealed opaque envelopes. The data was taken before and after the intervention, the measurement of lower abdominal pain, referred low back pain, and referred bilateral thighs pain was performed by numerical pain rating scale and for the measurement of systolic as well as diastolic blood pressure by aneroid sphygmomanometer.
Results & Conclusion: Paired t-test was applied for within group analysis of outcome variables by Numerical Pain Rating Scale and aneroid sphygmomanometer in both the groups. The between group comparison of outcome variables was analyzed by Unpaired t-test. There was highly significant difference in within group and between group comparison of group A for all the outcome variables (p value <0.001). The study concluded that High frequency TENS at dermatome level show significant improvement for managing primary dysmenorrhea.
Key words: Dysmenorrhea, Menstruation, Conventional TENS, Adolescence