Effectiveness And Efficiency of Massage Therapy in Pain Management of Vaginal Delivery

Objective: to identify the effectiveness and efficiency of massage
therapy in pain management of vaginal delivery.
Methods: This article was review article which will review several
article from several databased to answer the clinical question. The
clinical question was “how is the effectiveness and efficiency of
massage therapy for pain management during vaginal delivery
process?. Advence search technique was used during searching the
articles in Cochrane library, Ovid medline, EBSCO, and Pubmed.
“Massage therapy or massage”, “spontaneous or vaginal”,
“delivery or labor or childbirth”, “pain management or pain
manage”, “pain scale”, “anxiety”, and “family participation” was
used as keywords to searching in those databased.
Results: four articles were found. However only three articles which
suitable to answer the clinical question. The tittle of those articles
were “Effects of massage on pain and anxiety during labour: a
randomized controlled trial in Taiwan”, “Effect of massage therapy
on severity of pain and outcome of labor in primipara”, and
“Massage or music for pain relief in labour: A pilot randomised
placebo controlled trial”.
Conclusion: Massage therapy is more effective and efficiency
reduces pain on stage 1 of vaginal delivery when combined with
standard care (breathing therapy)