Aerobic exercise and its effects on Dysmenorrhoea, its severity and working ability. Tehreem Anis
Iqra University North Campus
Abstract
Menstruation is an unavoided change experience by an adolescent female. With this experience comes a lot of problems, one being dysmenorrhea, i.e. pain during menstruation. Dysmenorrhea has diverse hindering consequences such as being irregular at school or work, hindrances with activities of daily living, participation in sports, constraint in socialization, and higher intake of sedatives are emphatically connected with the higher pervasiveness and impact of dysmenorrhea. A study thus, aiming to find out effects of aerobic program of 45 minutes on the severity of dysmenorrhea and working ability. This study included 35 female participants having mean age of 21 years. The severity was tested using WaLLID (Working Ability, Location, Intensity, Days of Pain, Dysmenorrhea) score questionnaire prior to implementation of program to select the participants and also to find out the desired severity to include in the study (mild and moderate were included). The aerobic program was implemented and severity was tested after 8th week. The results showed 9 participants in mild category before the aerobic program improving to 13 participants in the mild category after exercise, providing significant results (p=0.000), in having beneficial effects in reducing the severity of dysmenorrhea and improving the working ability and participation.
