Actigraphy Quantifies Reduced Voluntary Physical Activity in Women With Primary Dysmenorrhea

Chantler, Ingrid; Mitchell, Duncan; Fuller, Andrea

doi:10.1016/j.jpain.2008.07.002

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“…Other studies have reported similar findings [3, 4, 7, 8, 20, 47, 48]. In this study, the average age at menarche was approximately 12 years, which is slightly lower than that in Turkey (13.38; [4]), Iran (13.3 years; [49]), Korea (13 years; [50]), Nigeria (12.7 years; [13]), Japan (12.5 years; [21]), and Hong Kong, South Africa, and Mexico (12.3 years; [8, 18, 47]). However, early menarche is defined as menarche beginning before age 11-12 [51–53].…”

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confidence: 82%

Auricular Acupressure Combined with an Internet-Based Intervention or Alone for Primary Dysmenorrhea: A Control Study

Yeh

Hung²,

Chen

et al. 2013

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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Background. Primary dysmenorrhea is prevalent in adolescents and young women. Menstrual pain and distress causes poor school performance and physiological damage. Auricular acupressure can be used to treat these symptoms, and Internet-based systems are a flexible way of communicating and delivering the relevant information. Objective. This study investigates the effects of auricular acupressure (AA) alone and combined with an interactive Internet-based (II) intervention for the management of menstrual pain and self-care of adolescents with primary dysmenorrhea. Design. This study adopts a pretest/posttest control research design with a convenience sample of 107 participants. Results. The outcomes were measured using the short-form McGill pain questionnaire (SF-MPQ), visual analogue scale (VAS), menstrual distress questionnaire (MDQ), and adolescent dysmenorrheic self-care scale (ADSCS). Significant differences were found in ADSCS scores between the groups, and in SF-MPQ, VAS, MDQ, and ADSCS scores for each group. Conclusion. Auricular acupressure alone and a combination of auricular acupressure and interactive Internet both reduced menstrual pain and distress for primary dysmenorrhea. Auricular acupressure combined with interactive Internet instruction is better than auricular acupuncture alone in improving self-care behaviors.

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Auricular Acupressure Combined with an Internet-Based Intervention or Alone for Primary Dysmenorrhea: A Control Study

Yeh

Hung²,

Chen

et al. 2013

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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“…The same animal whose activity data logger failed had an abnormally long menstrual cycle, and did not show any discernible pattern in abdominal temperature, and therefore was not used in any statistical analyses of temperature and activity. To account for differences in sensitivity between activity data loggers, mean 24‐hr physical activity counts were expressed as a percentage of the maximum count recorded by that logger, and reported as activity units [Chantler et al., ; Fick et al., ; Hetem et al., ].…”

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Body Temperature and Physical Activity Correlates of the Menstrual Cycle in Chacma Baboons (Papio hamadryas ursinus)

Nyakudya

Fuller

Meyer

et al. 2012

American J Primatol

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We investigated the temporal relationship between abdominal temperature, physical activity, perineal swelling, and urinary progesterone and estradiol concentrations over the menstrual cycle in unrestrained captive baboons. Using a miniature temperature-sensitive data logger surgically implanted in the abdominal cavity and an activity data logger implanted subcutaneously on the trunk, we measured, continuously over 6 months at 10-min intervals, abdominal temperature and physical activity patterns in four female adult baboons Papio hamadryas ursinus (12.9-19.9 kg), in cages in an indoor animal facility (22-25°C). We monitored menstrual bleeding and perineal swelling changes, and measured urinary progesterone and estradiol concentrations, daily for up to 6 months, to ascertain the stage and length of the menstrual cycle. The menstrual cycle was 36 ± 2 days (mean ± SD) long and the baboons exhibited cyclic changes in perineal swellings, abdominal temperature, physical activity, urinary progesterone, and estradiol concentrations over the cycle. Mean 24-hr abdominal temperature during the luteal phase was significantly higher than during the periovulatory phase (ANOVA, F((2, 9)) = 4.7; P = 0.04), but not different to that during the proliferative phase. Physical activity followed a similar pattern, with mean 24-hr physical activity almost twice as high in the luteal than in the periovulatory phase (ANOVA, P = 0.58; F((2, 12)) = 5.8). We have characterized correlates of the menstrual cycle in baboons and shown, for the first time, a rhythm of physical activity and abdominal temperature over the menstrual cycle, with a nadir of temperature and activity at ovulation.

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“…This was indeed confirmed in an early study in which COX inhibitors reduced both the levels of PGF 2a and pain in small numbers of dysmenorrheic women (Chan and Dawood, 1980). Numerous randomized, placebo-controlled studies have investigated the efficacy and safety of NSAIDs in treating dysmenorrhea, and have shown that several NSAID formulations, including naproxen sodium, zomepirac sodium, mefenamic acid, ketoprofen, ibuprofen, and diclofenac, provide effective pain relief in women with primary dysmenorrhea (Hanson et al, 1978;Ingemanson et al, 1981;Riihiluoma et al, 1981;Budoff, 1982;Mehlisch, 1988Mehlisch, , 1990Marchini et al, 1995;Facchinetti et al, 2002;Milsom et al, 2002;Letzel et al, 2006;Chantler et al, 2008Chantler et al, , 2009aIacovides et al, 2014a). Further, a meta-analysis of 31 studies on the efficacy of NSAIDs in primary dysmenorrhea revealed that compared with placebo, naproxen, ibuprofen and mefenamic acid all provided significant pain relief (Zhang and Li Wan Po, 1998).…”

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What we know about primary dysmenorrhea today: a critical review

Iacovides

Avidon

Baker

2015

Hum. Reprod. Update

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Further study is needed to determine whether effectively blocking dysmenorrheic pain ameliorates risk for the development of chronic pain disorders and to explore whether it is possible to prevent the development-and not just treat-severe dysmenorrheic pain in adolescent girls. In conclusion, we demonstrate the extensive multi-factorial impact of dysmenorrhea and we encourage and direct researchers to necessary future studies.

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Actigraphy Quantifies Reduced Voluntary Physical Activity in Women With Primary Dysmenorrhea

Cited by 34 publications

References 35 publications

Auricular Acupressure Combined with an Internet-Based Intervention or Alone for Primary Dysmenorrhea: A Control Study

Auricular Acupressure Combined with an Internet-Based Intervention or Alone for Primary Dysmenorrhea: A Control Study

Body Temperature and Physical Activity Correlates of the Menstrual Cycle in Chacma Baboons (Papio hamadryas ursinus)

What we know about primary dysmenorrhea today: a critical review

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