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This research aims at surveying satisfaction for relieving menstrual pain of back and foot massage by using stone therapy on Korean women in their 20s. The control and the experimental groups had 10 participants each and the stone therapy was applied to the latter during 8 weeks (twice a week). The results of this research were analyzed by the Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS) WIN 17.0 program, the frequencies and the percentage were calculated to investigate demographics features of the participants, the frequency analysis was performed to understand knowledge on menstruation, menstrual pain, back and foot massages and the descriptive statistics analysis was implemented to investigate symptoms during menstruation. Also, the t-test was performed to compare before and after the back and foot massage and find out satisfaction. It was shown that the back and foot massage using the stone therapy were effective in relieving menstrual pains for women in their 20s.