EFFECTIVENESS OF CAT STRETCH EXERCISE IN REDUCING THE LOW BACK PAIN AMONG ANTENATAL MOTHERS: A QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL STUDY

Background: Assess the level of low back pain among antenatal mothers with gestational age 28-36 weeks. Objectives: Assess the level of back pain. Find out the association between the pretest level of back pain along with selected demographic variables. Evaluate the effect of cat stretch exercise in reducing level of back pain among antenatal mothers in experimental group Materials And Methods: The study was conducted with antenatal mothers having low back pain with gestational age of 28-36 weeks. purposive sampling technique was used to assess the level of low pain in control and experimental group and to check the effect of cat stretch exercise in reduce the low back pain. An Oswestry low back pain questionnaire was used to assess the level of low back pain. Data was collected from 70 antenatal mothers. Results: I give cat stretch exercise in reduce the low back pain in experimental group. The pain is reduced in experimental group very severe & worst pain possible in pre-test (97.0%) after given intervention pain reduce mild (97.14%) and in control group there is less reduce of pain i.e. moderate severe in pre-test (68.57%) and moderate severe in post-test(60%) .The mean difference; S.D; t value in experimental group and control group was 20.71; 2.21 ; 43.55 &0.71;5.48 ;1.525 which was significant in experimental group and non-significant in control group at the level of p<0.05. this show the effect of cat stretch exercise in reducing the low back pain Conclusion: The study highlights the importance cat stretch exercise in reducing the low back pain among antenatal mothers