A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Extension Exercise on Low Back Pain among Staff Nurses Working in Shri Vinoba Bhave Civil Hospital, Silvassa

Introduction: Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual and potential tissue damage. Its stimulus is physical and/or mental in nature. Globally, about 40% of people have LBP at some point in their lives, with estimates as high as 80% of people in the developed world. Approximately 9 to 12% of people (632 million) have LBP at any given point in time, and nearly 25% report having it at some point over any one-month period. Exercise appears to be useful for preventing low back pain. Exercise is also probably effective in preventing recurrences in those with pain. Aim: The main aim of the study was to assess the effectiveness of extension exercise on low back pain among staff nurses working in Shri Vinoba Bhave Civil Hospital, Silvassa. Materials and Methods: A Pre-experimental one group pre-test post-test design was adopted for the study. 60 patients were selected by using non-probability consecutive (total enumeration) sampling technique. Data was collected by self-administered structured questionnaire and level of low back pain with numerical pain rating scale. Result: The result of the study shows that in the pre-test the mean pain score was 4.23, with standard deviation of 1.12 and mean % 42.3, whereas in the post-test mean pain score was 0.95 with standard deviation of 1.03 and mean % 9.5. The effectiveness of mean % was 32.8. This reveals that the extension exercise was effective in reducing the low back pain among staff nurses. Conclusion: It was concluded that the extension exercise was effective on reducing low back pain among staff nurses working in Shri Vinoba Bhave Civil Hospital, Silvassa. Keywords: Extension exercise, low back pain, staff nurses.