Antenatal perineal massage for reducing perineal trauma

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2013, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Beckmann, Michael M ^a   Stock, Owen M ^b  

^a MATER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MATER MOTHERS HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL PERINEAL MASSAGE; EPISIOTOMY; FLATULENCE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INSTRUMENTAL DELIVERY; MASSAGE; MORBIDITY; POSTPARTUM PAIN; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; URINE INCONTINENCE; VAGINAL DELIVERY; VAGINAL INJURY; DELIVERY; FEMALE; INJURY; LABOR COMPLICATION; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PERINEUM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICS;

DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; EPISIOTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASSAGE; OBSTETRIC LABOR COMPLICATIONS; PERINEUM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84879719285     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD005123.pub3     Document Type: Review

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