The Effect of Yoga Asanas on Dysmenorrhea Pain

Background: Dysmenorrhea is pain, often very severe pain, felt in the lower abdomen during menstruation. Menstrual pain often lasts till the conclusion of the menstrual cycle and can be disruptive to daily activities. There are both pharmaceutical and non-pharmacological ways to treat dysmenorrhea pain. Yoga asanas are one non-pharmacological method of pain management. This study sought to ascertain how yoga asanas affected the pain associated with dysmenorrhea. This study used an incidental sampling technique along with a one-group pre-and post-test design and a quasi-experimental sampling strategy. The population of this study consisted of all dysmenorrheic grade 11 pupils. This study was conducted using a quasi-experimental methodology using a one-group pre-test and post-test design. The study's sample size was 19 samples, including 8 samples from the control group and 11 samples from the intervention group, as determined by the Mann-Whitney U and Wilcoxon t-Independent Sample tests. It can be concluded that yoga asanas do not affect dysmenorrhea in 11th-grade students based on the findings of this study, which revealed no difference in dysmenorrhea pain between the p values for the intervention and control groups of (0.373) and (0.915), as well as no difference between the two groups pre- and post-test dysmenorrhea pain with p values of (0.102) and (0.317).