Abstract

Background: Menstrual pain has always been such abig problem forgirlseverywhere, dysmenorrheaoccurswithoutpelvicpathologyaffecting about 50% of women. It occurs more frequently in unmarriedwomen. Objectives:Toassessthe levelofdysmenorrheal amongadolescentgirls. -Toevaluatetheeffectivenessofpelvicbridgeexerciseondysmenorrheaamongadolescentgirls.-Toassociatethelevelofdysmenorrhea among adolescent girls with selected Socio demographicvariable. Researchdesignandapproach:QuantitativeapproachandPre-Experimental-One group pretest post-test design was adopted forthisstudy. The study was conducted at selected Government Girls HigherSecondary School, Madagadipet, Palayam.The sample size was 30. ThePurposivesamplingtechniquewasusedto selectthe subjects.Theintervention applied in this study was Pelvic bridge exercise, daily 2times perdayfor6daysperweekuptonextperiod. Result: The results showed the association between the post-test levelof dysmenorrheal and selected socio demographic variables, there was asignificant associationbetween the level of dysmenorrhea and selectedsocio demographic variables such as age in years (x2 =0.833). Age atmenarche(x2=0.536),FamilyType(x2=1.50),Familyincome(x2=2.72), amount of blood flow(x2=6.38) Regularity of blood flow(x2=6), Frequencyofcycle(x2=10.2)ofadolescentgirls. Conclusion:ThisstudyconcludesthatthePelvicbridgeexercisesignificantly reduced the level of dysmenorrheal among the Adolescentgirls.

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