The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of music therapy and ball exercise on women experiencing menstrual discomforts, thereby identifying the validity of these methods as interventions against menstrual discomforts, with a particular goal of presenting basic data for clinical use. Twenty university students in their 20s were assigned to two therapy groups in a sequence via simple random sampling; ten subjects attended a ball exercise combined with music therapy group and the other ten subjects attended a music therapy group. Ball exercises were conducted 3 times per week for a total of 12 times, starting from 3 weeks before the expected first day of the menstrual period and ending on the last day of the menstrual period. Similarly, the subjects participated in music therapy by listening to music for 35 minutes per session and 3 sessions per week, starting from 3 weeks before the expected first day of the menstrual period and ending on the last day of the menstrual period. Five out of six categories of menstrual discomforts were significantly decreased in both music therapy and ball exercise, the exception being changes in the autonomic nervous system, while those in the music therapy group showed a significant difference only in the category of behavioral changes. The results of the present study demonstrate that the ball exercise combined with music therapy more effective in improving menstrual discomforts than the music therapy group.

• Jung Hyun Choi(Namseoul University, Cheonan)
• Sang Bin Lee(Namseoul University, Cheonan)
• Ho Jung An(Dongnam Health University, Suwon)
• Ji Sung Kim(cSuwon Women University, Suwon)
• Ja Pung Koo(Pohang University, Pohang)
• Sei Youn Park(Yongin University, Yongin)
• Nyeon Jun Kim(Pohang University, Pohang)
• Nyeon Jun Kim(Pohang University, Pohang)