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Impact of prepartal acupuncture on labor and delivery

MAJA PEŠIĆ ; Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Centre, Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Zagreb, Croatia
KATARINA KLIČAN-JAIĆ ; Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Centre, Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Zagreb, Croatia
IVKA DJAKOVIĆ ; Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Centre, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Zagreb, Croatia
AIŠA MURATOVIĆ ; Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Centre, Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Zagreb, Croatia
ANDRO KOŠEC ; Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Centre, Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Zagreb, Croatia
TIHANA MAGDIĆ TURKOVIĆ ; Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Centre, Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Delivery is a natural process associated with a certain level of pain. With today’s range of various pain relieving methods during labor, it is possible to shorten laboring, thus ensuring better compliance of parturient woman. Prepartal acupuncture is one of these methods. The results of this prospective study showed that prepartal acupuncture had a positive infl uence on pain experience of parturient women. There was no difference in duration of the fi rst stage of labor between comparable groups, even in the primipara group. This study found acupuncture to have a positive infl uence on psychological state of the parturient women and general compliance during labor. Acupuncture should be considered as one of the possible methods for pain relief in labor and preparation for labor.

Keywords

prepartal acupuncture; acupuncture; labor; delivery; pain relief

Hrčak ID:

223012

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/223012

Publication date:

14.7.2019.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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