One strategy for reducing the primary cesarean surgery rate and length of labor is using a peanut-shaped exercise ball for women laboring under epidural analgesia. A randomized, controlled study was conducted to determine whether use of a "peanut ball" decreased length of labor and increased the rate of vaginal birth. Women who used the peanut ball (n = 107) versus those who did not (n = 91) de...

OBJECTIVE Labor pain and its management is a major concern for childbearing women, their families and health care providers. This study aimed to investigate the effects of two non-pharmacological methods such as birth ball and heat therapy on labor pain relief. MATERIAL & METHODS This randomized control trial was undertaken on 90 primiparous women aged 18-35 years old who were randomly assign...

Birth ball makes labor more efficient, helps mothers feel comfortable,and the decent of fetal head.

Nyeri persalinan timbul akibat kontraksi uterus yang mendorong kepala bayi sehingga menyebabkan pembukaan dan penipisan serviks. akan komplikasi yaitu partus lama jika tidak diatasi. Salah satu terapi untuk nyeri kala I Persalinan adalah birth ball. Birth ball bola karet dipompa ibu bersalin bertujuan mengurangi persalinan. Tujuan dari penelitian ini menggambarkan pengaruh Jenis digunakan dalam...

Pain in childbirth has the highest degree of pain among other pain, so that many women are not ready to have children because they imagine will be presented at time labor later. The general objective this study was determine whether there an effect birth ball therapy on intensity labor. Univariate and bivariate analysis using Wilcoxon test analysis. Bivariate is used see independent variable (i...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the efficacy of a birth ball exercise programme conducted by physiotherapists on pain relief, psychological care, and facilitation of the labour process at a labour ward in a regional hospital. DESIGN Case series with before-after comparisons. SETTING Kwong Wah Hospital, Hong Kong. PARTICIPANTS Chinese women admitted to the labour ward for spontaneous vaginal delive...

Consider the situation in which subjects arrive sequentially in a clinical trial. There are K possibly unrelated treatments. Suppose balls in an urn are labeled with treatments. When a subject arrives, a ball is drawn randomly from the urn, the subject receives the treatment indicated on the ball and the ball is returned to the urn. If the treatment is successful, one ball of the same type is a...

Persalinan merupakan suatu proses yang alamiah. Secara fisiologis, pada ibu bersalin akan terjadi kontraksi menyebabkan penipisan dan pembukaan serviks. Hal ini merasakan nyeri. Di Indonesia, penggunaan Birth Ball saat masih jarang namun sudah mulai diterapkan untuk mengatasi nyeri persalinan Selain itu, hamil salah satu metode membantu mewujudkan secara normal nyaman. Adapun tujuan kegiatan ad...