The Effectiveness of Red Ginger Compress Therapy (Zingiber officinale rosc. var. rubrum) on Elders with Joint Pain
- DOI
- 10.2991/hsic-17.2017.58How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Red Ginger Compress, Warm Compress, Joint Pain
- Abstract
Joint pain is common among elders in the community. Some of alternative pain management are applying red ginger compress and warm compresses therapy. Object: This study aim was to determine the differences in the effectiveness of red ginger compress and warm compress therapy to reduce joint pain. Method: This study used Quasi-experimental with two group pre-posttest designs. The 20 elders with joint pain that fits the inclusion criteria from a Public Health Center in Malang was used as sample population. The simple random sampling was used to divide sample into 2 groups, intervention groups/red ginger compress therapy group (n= 10) and control group/warm compress group (n= 10). Data were analyzed using independent t-test. Result: The results showed that the two group indicate there were a decline of pain scale before and after intervention which red ginger compress can occupied declination of pain scale from average 6.5 to 2.5. of Independent t-test between red ginger compress and warm compresses sig value 0.037 (p <0.05), indicate that there were a statistically significant different in effective reducing joint pain scale in elders. Conclusion: Red ginger has heat effect, anti-inflammatory and analgesic which can decrease joint paint more quickly than warm compress.
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- © 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Henik Tri Rahayu AU - Ning Sri AU - Sunardi Sunardi PY - 2017/10 DA - 2017/10 TI - The Effectiveness of Red Ginger Compress Therapy (Zingiber officinale rosc. var. rubrum) on Elders with Joint Pain BT - Proceedings of the Health Science International Conference (HSIC 2017) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 374 EP - 380 SN - 2468-5739 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/hsic-17.2017.58 DO - 10.2991/hsic-17.2017.58 ID - Rahayu2017/10 ER -