Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of yogic practices on selected clinical variables among women low back pain sufferers.The sources of subjects for this study were thirty (n=30) women low back pain sufferers were randomly selected as subjects from Iswaryam Nature Cure Centre in Salem district. The subject’s age was ranged between 28 to 35 years. They were randomly divided into two groups namely experimental and control group of fifteen each. The yogic practices were designed based on the result of the pilot study. During the training programme the experimental group underwent yogic practices for five days in a week for eight weeks and the control group was not exposed to any training except their regular work. The subjects were tested prior to and after the experimentation on the selected Clinical Variables such as Functional disability and Pain. The Quebec Back Pain Disability Scale and Visual Analogue Scale were used to analyse the clinical variables. The collected data from the subjects initial and final readings were statistically analyzed to assess the significance by computing‘t’ ratio. The level of significance was chosen at 0.05 level of confidence which was considered adequate for the purpose of the study. The findings of the study showed that there was a significant improvement found between pre and post test on selected clinical variables of experimental group when compared to control group.
Author Name : S.Ramya
Keywords: Yogic practices, Functional disability, Pain.
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