A comparative study of back muscle stretch exercises and warm mustard oil massage to reduce back pain among postnatal mother at PBMH, KIMS, Bhubaneswar, Odisha

Abstract

A comparative study was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of back muscle stretch exercises and warm mustard oil massage to reduce back pain among postnatal mother. The conceptual framework adopted for this study was based on the Imogene King Goal attainment theory. In this study simple random sampling technique was used to select 40 postnatal mothers who were meeting the sampling criteria. An observational checklist was used to assess the back pain among postnatal mother by Behavioural pain rating scale was used during data collection. Pre test was conducted on day-2 among the postnatal mother admitted in the postnatal ward of PBMH, KIMS, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. Post test was conducted on day 2nd, 3rd and day 4th. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze data in the study. The findings of the study revealed that back muscle exercises scores were significantly higher than the warm mustard oil massage score. The test result show ‘t’ test value on 2nd day (pre test) for back muscle stretch exercises is 34.79. Again the results reveal that the ‘t’ test value on 2nd, 3rd and 4th day (post test) for back muscle stretch exercises is 31.10, 23.97 and 13.07 which is more than the table value 3.88 with degree of freedom at 0.001 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that the back muscle exercises was more effective than the warm mustard oil massage among the postnatal mother. The study was concluded with limitation, implications and recommendations for experimental study on large sample.