PENGARUH SEBELUM DAN SESUDAH DILAKUKAN PIJAT PUNGGUNG TEKNIK COUNTERPRESSURE TERHADAP PENGURANGAN RASA NYERI IBU BERSALIN KALA I FASE AKTIF DI KLINIK BIDAN ELVIANA TAHUN 2017

Pain is an unpleasant state of feeling. It is very subjective because the pain is different to everyone in terms of scale or level. Pain is very disturbing and complicates more people than any disease. Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience resulting from actual or potential tissue damage. The research design used was quasy experiment with one group pretest-posttest appproach. The population in this study is all of maternal pain first stage of active phase since May to Agust at maternity Clinic Midwife Elviana. The sample in this study were 20 maternal pain first stage of active phase. The sampling technique in this research is consecutive sampling.The results showed the average of labor pain before the counterpressure massage was 8,3 (severe pain) with a scale of 7-9. The mean of labor pain after the counterpressure massage was 5,1 (moderate pain) on a 3-7 scale. The data analysis showed that the significance was less than 5 % (p = 0,000 < 0,05). So it can be concluded that massage counterpressure techniques effective againts the reduction of maternal pain when the first stage of active phase in the maternity hospital Bulan Mulya Perawang. The reseacher hope to maternity hospital Bulan Mulya Perawang this counterpressure massage can be used as part of midwifery care as a reduction of pain in the maternal pain first stage of active phase.