EFFECTIVENESS OF COMPREHENSIVE BODY MECHANICS ON LOW BACK PAIN AMONG STAFF NURSES WORKING IN CRITICAL CARE UNIT AND OPERATION THEATER

Introduction:Low Back pain can affect the people from any age and any different reasons. As people gets older, the chance of developing chromic low back pain. Low back pain occur in the area of bony lumbar spine, discs between the vertebrae, ligaments around the spine and discs, spinal cord and nerves, lower back muscles, abdominal and pelvic internal organs, and the skin around the lumbar area.

Aims: To assess the level of low back pain among staff nurses before and after comprehensive body mechanics among staff nurses. To assess the effectiveness of comprehensive body mechanics on low back pain among staff nurses. To find association between post interventional level of low back pain with the selected demographic and clinical variables among staff nurses.

Methodology:Aquasiexperimentalstudywith one group pre test andposttestdesignwasselectedtoassesstheeffectivenessofcomprehensive body mechanics on low backpainamong staff nurses working in Critical care unit and Operation Theater.Samples were selected by using non probability convient sampling technique as per theinclusioncriteriaatBharathirajaa Hospital,T Nagar,Chennaiand the sample size is 60 staff nurses, and were 30 staff nurses from critical care unit and 30 from Operation theater were selected for Pre and Post test. Assessment of low back pain was done by numerical rating pain scale and comprehensive body mechanics were educated to the staff nurses and post test of low back pain was assessed bythe  investigator  andanalyzedusingDescriptiveandInferentialStatistics.

Results:In one group, pre test mean score was 5.75 with S.D 2.48 and in post test mean score was 3.22 with S.D 1.44. The calculated  t value of  9.26 shows statistical high significant difference in the low back pain at p<0.001 level between the one group pre test and post test. Low back pain had shown statistically significant association with the gender, BMI, working hours a day. And other demographic and clinical variables were not shown any statistically significant in one group pre test and post test.

Conclusion: Thereby the researcher had demonstrated and educated the staff nurses who were working in Critical care unit and Operation Theater by maintain proper comprehensive body mechanics in minimizing the level of low back pain.