A Very Common Disorder

Painful menstruation PMS pain cycle menstruelAprès two or three days of pain in the abdominal area and / or lower back during menstruation, it is called dysmenorrhea. Among the female gynecological disorders, period pains are extremely common. The proportion of women affected is between 43% and 90% according to studies. Approximately 10 to 15% suffer from severe and disabling dysmenorrhea, which may lead to work stoppages, school absenteeism and reduced quality learning.

Meanwhile, evidence is accumulating about the detrimental role of stress in the occurrence of gynecologic problems of pregnancy, such as births prematurely6. But despite a suspicion of increasingly severe, the links between stress and menstrual pain were not identified. Previous studies have faced the difficulty of linking exactly when these two situations based only on ex post subjective statements of women.