Asian J Beauty Cosmetol. 2011; 9: 0.
The Effects of Relieving Menstrual Pain for Korean Twenties Women of the Back and Foot Massage using Stone Therapy
ABSTRACT
This research aims at surveying satisfaction for relieving menstrual pain of back and foot massage
by using stone therapy on Korean women in their 20s. The control and the experimental
groups had 10 participants each and the stone therapy was applied to the latter during 8 weeks
(twice a week). The results of this research were analyzed by the Statistical Package for the Social
Science (SPSS) WIN 17.0 program, the frequencies and the percentage were calculated to investigate
demographics features of the participants, the frequency analysis was performed to understand
knowledge on menstruation, menstrual pain, back and foot massages and the descriptive statistics
analysis was implemented to investigate symptoms during menstruation. Also, the t-test was performed
to compare before and after the back and foot massage and find out satisfaction. It was
shown that the back and foot massage using the stone therapy were effective in relieving menstrual
pains for women in their 20s.
Keywords :
foot massages, back massages, stone therapy, menstrual