Effectiveness of Acupressure Therapy among Patients with Low Back Pain in Selected Acupuncture Clinics at Mangaluru John Liji Sara1, Gireesh G.R.2, Ullas Anju3, Jawadagi Shashikumar4 1Post Graduate Student, Department of MSN, YNC, Yenepoya (Deemed to be University), Mangaluru 2Associate Professor, Department of MSN, YNC, Yenepoya (Deemed to be University), Mangaluru 3Lecturer, Department of MSN, YNC, Yenepoya (Deemed to be University), Mangaluru 4Professor, Department of MSN, YNC, Yenepoya (Deemed to be University), Mangaluru *Corresponding Author: Mrs. Liji Sara John, Post graduate student, Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, YNC, Yenepoya (Deemed to be University), University road, Deralakatte, Mangaluru-575018, Karnataka, India, e-mail: lijisj212@gmail.com, Contact number: 07996814139/0824-2206000
Online published on 23 December, 2019. Abstract Aim Acupressure is considering one of the safe alternative therapy. In low back pain acupressure is a best treatment until it is contraindicated and its natural ability helps to reduce the pain over conventional therapy and its side effects. This study evaluated the effectiveness of acupressure therapy on the level of pain among patients with low back pain. Design The pre-experimental one group pre-test post-test design was adopted as research design and Research approach was an evaluative approach. Non probability purposive sampling technique was used to select the study subjects (N=44, low back pain patients) from selected acupuncture clinics at Mangaluru. Results Acupressure therapy was found to have a substantial benefit in low back painpatients. Wilcoxon Sign Rank test was applied to analyze the effectiveness of acupressure therapy on patients with mild to moderate low back pain. The data analysis showed that the median pre-test score was 3 and while in post-test it improved to 2, < 0.05. Findings of the study revealed that the median post-test pain score was significantly lower than the median pre-test score after 10 days (9 minutes/day) of acupressure therapy. Likelihood Ratio was used to analyses the significant association. There was no association between the pre-test pain scores and the selected demographic variables. Conclusion The study findings showed that the acupressure therapy was effective in reducing the pain intensity among low back pain patients. Top Keywords Acupressure therapy, Effectiveness, Low back pain, Patients. Top |