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title: What are the best ways to manage pain from PMS? | Niyora
description: Pain can be managed with many approaches beyond medication, including physical therapies, mental techniques, and herbal products.
url: https://niyora.com/research/papers/premenstrual-sendromda-agr-yonetimi-2020/
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Study, 2020

# What are the best ways to manage pain from PMS?

Pain can be managed with many approaches beyond medication, including physical therapies, mental techniques, and herbal products.

 Early or limited evidence

Women with PMS pain

## What they did

Information was reviewed on approaches to manage pain in PMS, covering medications, physical therapies, and other methods.

## What they found

Pain is one of the most common PMS symptoms, happening in the abdomen, lower back, upper back, head, breasts, muscles, and joints. Medication is often used but can cause side effects and dependence with overuse. Non-medication methods that can help include aromatherapy, hypnosis, massage, reflexology, heat, acupuncture, yoga, distraction, music, meditation, therapeutic touch, and electrical nerve stimulation. Some herbal products like motherwort, St. John's wort, and meadowsweet may help manage pain.

## What it means for you

Many pain management options exist beyond medication, which could help reduce medication side effects. Main limitation: this reviews available approaches rather than testing which methods work best.

## About the study

Original title Premenstrual Sendromda Ağrı Yönetimi Authors Hatice Sarı Çetin, Nülüfer Erbi̇l Journal Ordu Üniversitesi Hemşirelik Çalışmaları Dergisi Year 2020 Study design Study What was tested None Open access Yes Read the paper [doi.org/10.38108/ouhcd.693294](https://doi.org/10.38108/ouhcd.693294)

## Topics

[Premenstrual syndrome (PMS)](https://niyora.com/research/topics/condition-pms/)

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