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Gua-Sha therapy on breast engorgement among Indian postnatal mothers

Many women experience breast engorgement in the first few weeks after giving birth. Breast engorgement that is somewhat severe. It is characterized by full, tense, heated, and tender breasts that are painfully throbbing and aching. Therefore, it is of interest to evaluate the effect of Gua-Sha thera...

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Autores principales: N, Amudha, D, Prakash
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Biomedical Informatics 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10613815/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37908615
http://dx.doi.org/10.6026/97320630019853
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description Many women experience breast engorgement in the first few weeks after giving birth. Breast engorgement that is somewhat severe. It is characterized by full, tense, heated, and tender breasts that are painfully throbbing and aching. Therefore, it is of interest to evaluate the effect of Gua-Sha therapy on breast engorgement in reducing pain among postnatal mothers. A "non-randomized pre-test post-test control group design" was used for this study. "Purposive sampling techniques" were used to obtain 60 postnatal mothers who satisfied the inclusion criteria. Six point engorgement scale and visual analog scale were used for data collection. After pre-test Gua-Sha therapy was given 30 minutes in one cycle twice a day depending on upon the severity. Reassessment was done immediately after the procedure. The result shows that the post test score of breast engorgement in experimental group was 1.1 (± 0.305), where in control group 4.16 (±2.152). The 't' test value of breast engorgement was 9.869. The result shows that Gua-Sha therapy for breast engorgement in reducing pain was significant effect (p <0.05). The study concluded that the Gua-Sha therapy is an effective for reducing breast engorgement and pain among post natal mothers.
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spelling pubmed-106138152023-10-31 Gua-Sha therapy on breast engorgement among Indian postnatal mothers N, Amudha D, Prakash Bioinformation Research Article Many women experience breast engorgement in the first few weeks after giving birth. Breast engorgement that is somewhat severe. It is characterized by full, tense, heated, and tender breasts that are painfully throbbing and aching. Therefore, it is of interest to evaluate the effect of Gua-Sha therapy on breast engorgement in reducing pain among postnatal mothers. A "non-randomized pre-test post-test control group design" was used for this study. "Purposive sampling techniques" were used to obtain 60 postnatal mothers who satisfied the inclusion criteria. Six point engorgement scale and visual analog scale were used for data collection. After pre-test Gua-Sha therapy was given 30 minutes in one cycle twice a day depending on upon the severity. Reassessment was done immediately after the procedure. The result shows that the post test score of breast engorgement in experimental group was 1.1 (± 0.305), where in control group 4.16 (±2.152). The 't' test value of breast engorgement was 9.869. The result shows that Gua-Sha therapy for breast engorgement in reducing pain was significant effect (p <0.05). The study concluded that the Gua-Sha therapy is an effective for reducing breast engorgement and pain among post natal mothers. Biomedical Informatics 2023-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10613815/ /pubmed/37908615 http://dx.doi.org/10.6026/97320630019853 Text en © 2023 Biomedical Informatics https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10613815/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37908615
http://dx.doi.org/10.6026/97320630019853
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