|
KMID : 1004620040100010125
|
|
Clinical Nursing Research
2004 Volume.10 No. 1 p.125 ~ p.133
|
|
|
The Effect of Exercise for the Prevention of Low Back Pain on Back Pain, Back Strength, Flexibility in Operating Room Nurses
|
|
장인숙
강희선
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
Purpose:The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of exercise program for 6 weeks on back pain, back strength, and body flexibility among operating room nurses.
Method:The subjects in this study were 54 nurses working in the operating room of Y university hospital in Seoul, Korea. Visual analogue scale was used to measure the subjective pain severity. And back muscle strength and body flexibility were measured with a back strength dynamometer and a forward flex meter respectively.
Result:There were statistically significant decrease in low back pain(t=6.39, p=.000), and increase in back muscle strength(t=-7.29, p=.000) and flexibility(t=-5.28, p=.000) after 6 weeks.
Conclusion:The results suggested that exercise program was effective for the prevention of low back pain, therefore it is necessary to support operating room nurses to exercise continuously.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
|
|