網球按摩在待產婦女疼痛緩解之臨床應用

The Clinical Application of Tennis Ball Massage in Pain Release for Laboring Women

生產，是女性自然的生命事件，待產及分娩的疼痛，乃生理上必經歷之過程；目前在產房，護理人員對於產婦宮縮疼痛、下背酸痛的非藥物性緩解法皆教導家屬採徒手按摩，此方式除了造成操作者手部酸痛外，還有按摩力道不均勻、無法促進產婦舒適的情形發生。筆者首次在臨床實務中以網球來執行待產婦女的背部按摩，此種兼具實用、安全、舒適、且低成本的網球按摩方式將有助於突顯產房護理人員獨立性之護理功能，增加準父親對生產過程之參與度，實踐以家庭為中心的產科護理理念。建議國內未來能將網球按摩技巧，納入醫院產前教育課程雙親教室內容，廣為宣導，使其能在待產過程中普遍被應用，進而提升生產照護品質。

Childbirth is a natural physiological process of women with pain in labor and confinment. Now in the delivery room, the nursing staffs used to teach laboring women's families the non-medical release method of hand massage during uterus contraction, and low back pain. This method would lead to the operator's sore hands and uneven massage, and could not make the parturient woman more comfortable. We tried to use a new massage technique with tennis ball for laboring women, and the clinical benefits were practical, safer, comfortable, and of lower cost, making nursing independence function more apparent, increasing husbands to participate, promoting the quality of laboring nursing, and carrying out the obstetrical nursing concepts based on family centered maternity care. The nursing innovation for delivery rooms to use tennis ball massage in clinical application, we suggest that tennis ball massage skill can be wildly adopted in our country, to be included in the contents of hospital pre-natal childbirth education, and to be generally used for laboring women.