Decreasing Labor Pain through Sacralist Counter-pressure Therapy Using Tennis Ball in the Mother during the Labor Process

Sri Rejeki; Enny Widayati; Machmudah Machmudah; Arief Yanto

doi:10.3889/oamjms.2021.5817

Authors

Sri Rejeki Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health, Universitas Muhammadiyah Semarang, Semarang, Indonesia
Enny Widayati Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health, Universitas Muhammadiyah Semarang, Semarang, Indonesia
Machmudah Machmudah Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health, Universitas Muhammadiyah Semarang, Semarang, Indonesia
Arief Yanto Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health, Universitas Muhammadiyah Semarang, Semarang, Indonesia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2021.5817

Keywords:

Regiosacral Counter-pressure therapy with tennis balls, Labor pain

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Labor pain is a physiological process caused by the contraction of uterus muscle as an effort to open the cervix and push the baby’s head toward the pelvis. One of the treatments giving by nurses to reduce the pain is by counter-pressure therapy.

AIM: The aim of the study was to determine the effect of counter-pressure therapy using tennis balls toward the pain level in the first stage during the active phase of labor.

METHODS: It was a quasi-experimental study with pretest-posttest one group design. The population in this study was patients with active phase I delivery in PKU Muhammadiyah Hospital of Temanggung. A total of 26 respondents were selected through purposive sampling technique. The data were analyzed using Wilcoxon matched paired test.

RESULTS: The pain intensity in 26 respondents (100%) in the first stage during the active phase of labor before the treatment was categorized as severe pain. However, after the implementation of the counter-pressure therapy using tenis ball, the pain intensity was categorized as moderate in 18 respondents (69.2%) and severe in the rest of the respondents (30.8%).

CONCLUSION: Counter-pressure massage therapy using a tennis ball was effective in reducing the level of pain in the first stage during the active phase of labor with a p = 0.000 (α < 0.05).

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