Comparison between massage and music therapies to relieve the severity of labor pain

Women's Health

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 377-381

  Taghinejad, Hamid ^a   Delpisheh, Ali ^a   Suhrabi, Zeinab ^a  

^a ILAM UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Labor pain; Massage therapy; Music therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRAN; LABOR PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASSAGE; MUSIC THERAPY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIMIGRAVIDA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THERAPY EFFECT; VAGINAL DELIVERY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; LABOR PAIN; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MASSAGE; MUSIC THERAPY; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952172542     PISSN: 17455057     EISSN: 17455065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/whe.10.15     Document Type: Article

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