Painful periods affect a growing number of women — as many as 25% of younger women. The pain is often severe enough to prevent normal functioning and any physical activity.
Period pain divides into two types, cramping and congestive. Both can be worked with using manual pain-relief techniques.
Therapy
- Manual pain-relief techniques
- Learning self-treatment
- Breathing work
- Releasing the diaphragm
- Stretching exercises
- Control of resting tone and function of the pelvic floor