The Effectiveness of Kegel Exercise for the Acceleration of Perineum Wound Healing on Postpartum Women

Abstract

Postpartum is an important phase because the complication including genetalia infection frequently happen in this phase. perineum wound healing delay is influenced by several factors, such as less nutrients, less of personal hygiene or personal perineum hygiene, less break, less mobilization and exercises as post-partum exercises that could cause infection. The Post-partum Mobilization was applied gradually based on mother’s power. One effort to be made to accelerate perineum wound healing was to implement post-partum exercise. One movement in postpartum exercise including kegel exercise was useful to help perineum wound healing. In this study, we aimed to Analyze the effectiveness of kegel exercise for the acceleration of perineum wound healing. Methods: The quantitative method with quasi experiment, the sampling technique used in this research was purposive sampling. Results: There is a meaningful correlation (p-value < 0,05) on accelerating of perineum wound healing between the postpartum women who implemented the kegel exercise compared to women who did not do kegel exercise. Conclusion: kegel exercise was recommended to be done for a beginning week of postpartum to help the accelerate perineum wound healing. Keywords—kegel, healing, postpartum women