Women's Health Research Laboratory, Physical Therapy Department, Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), São Carlos, São Paulo, 13565-905, Brazil.
Study Group on Chronic Pain (NEDoC), Laboratory of Research on Electrophysical Agents (LAREF), Department of Physical Therapy, Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), São Carlos, SP, 13565-905,Brazil.
Pain Manag. 2024 Jun 2;14(5-6):265-272. doi: 10.1080/17581869.2024.2376519. Epub 2024 Jul 23.
Different nonpharmacological strategies are adopted to decrease primary dysmenorrhea (PD)-related pain. The present study aimed to verify women's use of nonpharmacological methods for pain and compare them with evidence from the literature. A two-step study was conducted, comprising an online survey with 9144 women to assess nonpharmacological strategies for relieving PD-related pain, and a literature review on PubMed of verify the evidence of nonpharmacological methods. Many women reported using heat therapy (61.5%), tea (42.4%) and massage (30.9%) to alleviate menstrual pain. However, the literature on these methods is limited. Several nonpharmacological methods are used by women to relieve PD-related pain and studies with low bias risk are needed to prove their effectiveness.
不同的非药物策略被采用来减轻原发性痛经（PD）相关的疼痛。本研究旨在验证女性使用非药物方法缓解 PD 相关疼痛，并将其与文献中的证据进行比较。研究采用两步法进行，包括对 9144 名女性进行在线调查，以评估缓解 PD 相关疼痛的非药物策略，以及对 PubMed 文献进行综述，以验证非药物方法的证据。许多女性报告使用热疗（61.5%）、茶（42.4%）和按摩（30.9%）来缓解月经疼痛。然而，这些方法的文献有限。女性使用多种非药物方法来缓解 PD 相关疼痛，需要进行低偏倚风险的研究来证明其有效性。
