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@article{187845,
        author = {Dr. Vinojpriya C.},
        title = {Effectiveness of Back Massage in Reducing Post Operative Pain and Improving Quality of Recovery among Patients Undergone Orthopedic Surgery},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {6},
        pages = {6815-6821},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=187845},
        abstract = {Background: Musculoskeletal disorders are degenerative diseases and inflammatory conditions that cause pain and impair normal activities. They can affect many different parts of the body including upper and lower back, neck, shoulders and extremities. Orthopedic surgery addresses and attempts to correct problems that arise in the skeleton and its attachments, the ligaments and tendons. Pain following orthopedic surgery affects the functional ability and outcomes. Inadequate postoperative pain management decreases participation in rehabilitation and activities of daily living and increased potential for chronic pain. Pain management is essential optimal for patient outcome. Objectives: To assess the pre and posttest level of pain and quality of recovery among patients undergone orthopedic surgery in the control and experimental group, to evaluate the effectiveness of back massage on the level of pain and quality of recovery among patients undergone orthopedic surgery in experimental group, to correlate the level of pain with quality of recovery among patients undergone orthopedic surgery in the control and experimental group, to find out the association between level of pain & level of quality of recovery among patients undergone orthopedic surgery and their selected demographic variables in control and experimental group and to find out the association between among patients. Methodology: Quasi experimental non randomized control group pretest posttest design was undertaken to assess post operative pain and quality of recovery among 30 patients in control group and 30 patients in experimental group who undergone orthopedic surgery at selected Hospital in Lucknow. Results: The study result showed that the pretest level of pain in control group on day I and Day-II, all 30 subjects (100%) had severe level of pain and there was no change in the posttest level of pain. The pretest level of pain on Day-III, 27(90%) subjects had severe level of pain and there was no change in the posttest level of pain. the pretest level of pain on first post operative day 22 subjects (73.3%) had severe level of pain and on third post operative day, 23 subjects (76.6%) had moderate level of pain and the posttest level of pain on first post operative day 17 subjects (56.6%) had moderate level of pain, on third post operative day 19(63.3%) had mild level of pain in the experimental group. The pretest level of quality of recovery in control group, 28 of them (93.3%) had average level of quality of recovery and 2(6.6%) had poor level of quality of recovery. Whereas in the post test, 29(96.6%) had average level of quality of recovery and 1(3.33%) had poor level of quality of recovery. the pretest level of quality of recovery in the experimental group, 30 subjects (100%) had average level of quality of recovery and in the post test,29(96.6%) of them had good level of quality of recovery. The obtained ‘t’ values on day-I, day-II, day-III for level of pain between the control and experimental group is 7.35, 14.64, 23.41 which were highly significant at p<0.001 level. the obtained over all ‘t’ value for level of quality of recovery between the experimental and control group was 19.66 which was highly significant at p<0.001 level. The posttest mean of experimental group in case of physical independence was 20.46 whereas in control group was 7.13 and their mean difference was 13.33 which had greater improvement than other parameters. there was a negative correlation (r= -0.420) between posttest level of pain and quality of recovery in experimental group at P<0.01 level. Conclusion: It was concluded that back massage was effective on post operative pain and quality of recovery among patients undergone orthopedic surgery.},
        keywords = {Back massage, Post operative pain, Quality of recovery, Orthopedic surgery},
        month = {November},
        }