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Dysmenorrhea in teenager can have an impact on activities and doing activity, thus it can interfere of the teaching and learning process. This can be done with various alternative therapies, one of them is abdominal stretching therapy. The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of abdominal stretching exercise toward dysmenorrhea reduction on teenager in ten grade student of Senior High School 6 Denpasar. This study employed pre experimental with one group pretest posttest design. The interventions of abdominal stretching with 10-20 minutes to 20 students who experienced dysmenorrhea and the sample were selected by using total sampling. The data were collected by using Faces Pain Scale-Revised (FPS-R) and analyzed by using non Paired t-Test. The finding showed that the significant value was p- value = 0,000 or 0,001 (p< 0,05) which meant abdominal stretching provide the significant effect to the dysmenorrhea reduction on teenager in ten grade student of Senior High School 6 Denpasar The Conclusion of research was abdominal stretching is recommended as an appropriate strategy for measuring pain scale in decreasing dysmenorrhea on teenager