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- Title
Effects of auriculotherapy with mustard seeds on chronic low back pain of nursing professionals.
- Authors
Gomes da Silva, Ana Paula; Rodrigues de Araújo, Maria das Graças; Guerino, Marcelo Renato
- Abstract
More than 60% of nursing workers have an episode of low back pain for one year, causing a negative socioeconomic impact, as this is one of the major causes of absence from work. Auriculotherapy is a low-cost, non-invasive acupuncture technique that uses the auricular pavilion as a microsystem of the human organism mapped by points that when stimulated can treat several ailments. Thus, this study aims to verify the efficacy of mustard seed (Brassica juncea) auriculotherapy in alleviating pain, improving functionality and lumbar mobility of female technical professionals and nursing assistants with chronic low back pain. A blind randomized clinical trial was conducted with two groups: one group used mustard seeds for acupressure in the ear points "ShenMen," "Kidney," "Sympathetic," and "Lumbar Spine"; the placebo group used low density polyurethane foam in place of seeds. Each group performed four auriculotherapy sessions, one per week. The groups were analyzed using infrared thermograms and pressure algometry for pain, finger-floor measurement for mobility and Roland-Morris Questionnaire for spine functionality, with a 95% confidence interval. Mustard seed auriculotherapy reduced the average temperature in the thermograms analyzed by 0.8 °C, as well as increased the pain threshold to lumbar spine pressure of the volunteers by 0.4 Kgf, which shows a significant improvement of low back pain. Therefore, mustard seed auriculotherapy was effective in alleviating low back pain.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; CHRONIC pain treatment; LUMBAR vertebrae physiology; LUMBAR pain; AURICULOTHERAPY; CONFIDENCE intervals; MANN Whitney U Test; FISHER exact test; MUSTARD; TREATMENT effectiveness; FUNCTIONAL assessment; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; PLACEBOS; PAIN threshold; PRE-tests &; post-tests; T-test (Statistics); SEEDS; ALGOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRES; ACUPUNCTURE points; CHI-squared test; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; STATISTICAL sampling; CONTROL groups; BODY temperature regulation; DATA analysis software; MEDICAL thermography; EVALUATION
- Publication
Fisioterapia e Pesquisa, 2021, Vol 28, Issue 2, p136
- ISSN
1809-2950
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/1809-2950/19028128022021