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Effectiveness Of Home Based Stretching And Strengthening Program For Cervical Spine Dysfunction In Housewives

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Pooja Kadam, Dr.Suraj Kanase, Dr Rachel Dsilva
ยป doi: 10.33472/AFJBS.6.9.2024.754-764

Abstract

Cervical spine dysfunction is a prevalent issue among housewives, often stemming from prolonged hours of household chores, poor posture and repetitive nature of domestic activities. As housewives doing their chores, it is difficult for them to travel back and forth for treatment. Most activities can cause rounded shoulder and forward neck which cause pain and difficulty in movement of neck Methods: The study was conducted to explore and evaluate the effectiveness of a home-based stretching and strengthening program specifically designed to ease cervical spine dysfunction in 90 housewives according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria of the study. The outcome measures of the study were visual analogue scale (VAS), neck disability index (NDI) and cervical range of motions using goniometer. The Intervention protocol was for 4 weeks, 6 days a week 45 minutes. Subjects were given home based stretching and strengthening program of 4 weeks to determine its effect on the pain and range of motion of cervical area. Result: Results revealed statistically significant difference(<0.0001)in cervical range of motion and reduction in neck pain. As per neck disability index there is less difficulty in daily household work as compare to before the exercise program. Conclusion: There is improvement in range of motion after the home based stretching and strengthening program and pain has reduced. The post neck disability index result define that there is less difficulty faced by housewives as compared to pre neck disability test.

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