Table 3.

Comparison of pain outcome at 3 days, 10 days, and 3 months postpartum and sexual, bowel, and bladder outcomes at 3 months postpartum between treatment groups

	Massage group	Control group	Absolute risk	Relative risk (95% CI)	P value
3 days
No of women	597	499
Vaginal pain	416	359	1.03	0.97 (0.90 to 1.05)	0.45
Worst pain moderate or severe	210	192	1.09	0.91 (0.78 to 1.07)	0.28
10 days
No of women	632	555
Vaginal pain	184	187	1.16	0.86 (0.73 to 1.02)	0.10
Worst pain moderate or severe	56	63	1.27	0.78 (0.55 to 1.10)	0.18
3 months
No of women	503	436
Vaginal pain	58	54	1.07	0.93 (0.66 to 1.32)	0.76
Dyspareunia	78	68	1.01	0.99 (0.74 to 1.34)	0.96
Intercourse not resumed	49	60	1.41	0.71 (0.50 to 1.01)	0.07
Worst pain moderate or severe	19	14	0.85	1.18 (0.60 to 2.32)	0.77
Urinary urgency	139	111	0.92	1.09 (0.88 to 1.34)	0.50
Loss of urinary control	123	115	1.08	0.93 (0.74 to 1.15)	0.55
Bowel urgency	115	111	1.11	0.90 (0.72 to 1.13)	0.39
Loss of bowel control	36	35	1.12	0.89 (0.57 to 1.39)	0.70