EFFECTS OF AEROBIC AND STRETCHING EXERCISES ON PRIMARY DYSMENORRHEA OF FIRST YEAR STUDENTS OF COLLEGE OF NATURAL AND COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCES IN WOLAITA SODO UNIVERSITY

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.