ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2021
Prevalence of Perineal Tear Peripartum after Two Antepartum Perineal Massage Techniques: A Non-Randomised Controlled Trial.
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- The effect of antenatal vaginal dilators on perineal trauma: A systematic review and meta-analysis.International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of perineal massage at different stages on perineal and postpartum pelvic floor function in primiparous women: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2024Pooled it
- Effect of Prenatal Perineal Massage on Postpartum Perineal Injury and Postpartum Complications: A Meta-Analysis.Computational and mathematical methods in medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Effect of Perineal Massage and Warm Compresses Technique in Postpartum Perineal Pain. A Secondary Analysis from a Randomised Controlled Trial.Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2026Trial
- "Comparative effects of rotational effleurage and connective tissue massage on labor pain, duration, and perineal outcomes in pregnant women": a randomized clinical trial.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Trial
- Perineal Care Strategies and Perineal Outcomes in Primiparous Women: A Prospective Observational Pilot Study.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Observational
- Impact and safety of perineal massage in late pregnancy on delivery outcomes among primiparous women: a propensity score matching analysis.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- A case report of spontaneous bilateral perineal hematoma during pregnancy and literature review.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Review
- Birth plans: Developing a shared medical decision aid tool.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Perineal Massage during Pregnancy for the Prevention of Postpartum Urinary Incontinence: Controlled Clinical Trial.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Article
- The clinical characteristics of perineal tears: A study carried out on 14 pregnant women in a tertiary center: Case series.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Perineal massage increases elasticity of myofascial perineal tissue and decreases the burning and perineal pain during labour, thus optimising child birth, although an application protocol has not been standardised yet. The objective of this study is to determine the efficiency of massage in perineal tear prevention and identification of possible differences in massage application. Total of 90 pregnant participants were divided into three groups: perineal massage and EPI-NO
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