Acupuncture for Labor Pain
Generally 50 to 70 percent of women suffer from a severe and
unbearable pain during their childbirth. Abnormal fetal heart patterns, an
increase of caesarian delivery rate, prolonged labor and low APGAR score in
newborn are some of adverse effects of labor pain. Disagreement between
different studies regarding the efficiency and effectiveness of acupuncture on
labor pain led us to do this study. This is a clinical trial study. Sampling
was done randomly in Esfahan, Shahid Beheshti Hospital, based on the subjects'
characteristics. Patients were classified into three groups of control,
Pethidine and acupuncture (27-30 women in each group). All women with a first
and second pregnancy. VAS pain ruler was used as data collection tool. Data
were analyzed in SPSS software, and using ANOVA and kruskal-Wallis tests. The
average pain score in control group 30 min after intervention was 7.80, while
in Pethidine and acupuncture groups respectively were 6.87 and 5.77. Kruskal-Walis
test showed that three groups in pain severity had significant difference at
this time. The average length of the active phase of labor in Pethidine and acupuncture
groups was 175 min while this time in control group was 243 min that ANOVA test
showed a significant difference (P = 0.000). Results showed that acupuncture
can significantly reduce labor pain in 30 min after intervention, while it had
no effect on labor pain at full dilatation. However, both in Pethidine and acupuncture
groups, the length of the active phase has been considerably shortened.
Source: Allameh Z,
Tehrani HG,
Ghasemi M.
Comparing the
impact of acupuncture and pethidine on reducing labor pain. Adv Biomed Res. 2015 Feb 12;4:46.
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