Effect of Pelvic Floor Muscle Exercise on Pain Intensity in Women after Colorectal Surgery

Aim and scope: The most important complications after colorectal surgery is pain which use of nonpharmacologic methods to reduce the complications has been considered by researchers. This study was conducted aiming at study on effect of Pelvic-floor muscle (PFM) exercises on Severity of pain after colorectal surgery. Materials and methods: this study is a randomized clinical trial; the statistical population under study consisted of all the women patients suffered from benign colorectal diseases referred to Shahid Rajaee Hospital (Gachsaran) and hospital Yasuj Shahid Beheshti. 96 patients were selected via Non-probability sampling, then were considered in two experimental and control groups in random allocation way. The patients in the intervention group before surgery were trained with pelvic floor muscle exercises. Severity of pain data at 6, 12, 18, 24 and 48 hours after surgery were collected using Numeric pain scale. The collected data were analyze via software SPSS-version 22 using descriptive statistics and inferential tests (T-test, chi-square, Fisher, Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Mann-Whitney) and considering the confidence interval (95%). Findings: findings of study indicated that mean of overall score of Severity of pain in test group at 6, 12, 18, 24 and 48 hours after surgery in order has been 7/1±1/8, 6/4±2/1, 5/5±2/2, 4/8±1/9, 3/9±1/9 And after the intervention 4/1±2/9, 4/6±2/3, 3/3±2/1, 2/2±2/1, 2/1±1/2. also, in the control group, the mean Severity of pain of patients at times 6, 12, 18, 24 and 48 hours after surgery and before the intervention 7/2 ±2/5, 6/7±2/4, 6/2±2/1, 5/6±2/2, 5/1±2/4 and after the intervention 3/2±2/2, 3/7±2/2, 3/9±1/9, 3/2±1/9, 2/9±1/8 and in terms of mean differences The severity of pain at the times mentioned before the intervention, respectively has been 0/1, 0/3, 0/7, 0/8, 1/2 and after intervention 1/1, 1/1, 0/6, 1, 0/8 which a significant difference was not observed between two groups (P>0/05). Conclusion: with regard to the findings of the present research, Pelvic-floor muscle (PFM) exercise has no effect on Severity of pain after colorectal surgery, thus it requires conducting further research in this context.