Abstract:
Aerobic and Stretching exercise are useful for reduction of primary dysmenorrehea. This study
attempted to find out effects of aerobic and stretching exercises on the primary dysmenorrehea
on first year students of College of natural and computational sciences in Wolaita Sodo
University. Purposive and stratified sampling techniques were used to select 32 female student
of age 18-21 years old and randomly assigned into groups, aerobic (16) and (16) stretching
groups randomly. All groups participated in supervised aerobic and stretching workouts 3
days/week for 12 weeks. All subjects under this study took part in experimental design pre,
post test without control group from November 2017 to January 2018, and 40,50,60 minutes
per month session. The exercise for Aerobic group were: rope jumping, Step aerobics
exercise, step-up and running on treadmill. For stretching group, were, hip stretching, side to
side, Double leg curl training, Sit and rich. Data were analyzed by using SPSS paired samples
t- test with pair wise comparison of means at 95% confidence interval. The results of VAS
Pretest was7.50±1.00 aerobic, 7.62±0.885 stretching. posttest were5.43±1.03aerobic,
5.125±0.806, were stretching. This result indicated that there were significant improvements
in selected aerobic and dynamic stretching exercises on primary dysmenorrehea. The
significant value MD: 1.81 with Sig 0.001 for aerobic, MD:-2.500 with Sig 0.000 for
stretching.(p ˂ 0.05). This study also proved that, aerobic exercise was significantly better
than stretching in reduction of pain symptoms of cramps, breast tenderness and stretching
exercise was significantly better than aerobic exercise in improving muscle stiffness and stay
at home. While both exercises had almost the same effect on vomiting, fatigue, VAS. The
researcher recommended that student chose combined both exercise or either of one based on
their interest to relief priamary dysmenorrehea.
