NCT04937270

Effects of High-frequency Deep Diathermy on Heart Rate Variability in Women With Primary Dysmenorrhea

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 37 (actual)
• Sponsor: Sahmyook University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Superficial heat therapy is mainly used to relieve menstrual pain, but it does not penetrate deeper than the skin tissue. In order to penetrate deep into the deep layers and promote tissue relaxation, deep heat therapy can be effective. The treatment time for deep heat treatment is controversial, and there is no study on deep heat treatment using radio frequency for dysmenorrhea. Therefore, in this study, by applying radiofrequency waves at different times to the lower abdomen for patients with primary dysmenorrhea, the pain and changes in the autonomic nervous system were compared with thermotherapy to suggest appropriate therapeutic interventions.

Conditions

• Primary Dysmenorrhea
• Dysmucorrhea

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	High frequency therapy (5 minutes)	The high-frequency therapy device (radio frequency therapy, WINBACK, Villeneuve Loubet France) used in this study was used to treat deep heat for 5 minutes using a 500 kHz resistive electric transfer (RET).
DEVICE	High frequency therapy (7 minutes)	The high-frequency therapy device (radio frequency therapy, WINBACK, Villeneuve Loubet France) used in this study was used to treat deep heat for 7 minutes using a 500 kHz resistive electric transfer (RET).
DEVICE	High frequency therapy (9 minutes)	The high-frequency therapy device (radio frequency therapy, WINBACK, Villeneuve Loubet France) used in this study was used to treat deep heat for 9 minutes using a 500 kHz resistive electric transfer (RET).
DEVICE	Superficial heat therapy	In the physical therapy used in this study, it was applied for 20 minutes using conventionally used superficial heat therapy.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-06-23
• Primary completion: 2021-10-30
• Completion: 2021-11-30
• First posted: 2021-06-24
• Last updated: 2022-03-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: South Korea