Effectiveness of massage with aromatic ginger oil and orange essential oil on knee pain among elderly people at selected old age home, Madurai

Healthy geriatric population make major contribution to health. Providing nursing care for geriatric population is a major area of responsibility in all health care settings. Knee joint pain is the most frequent complaint among the geriatric population. The main objectives of this study was to assess the effectiveness of massage with aromatic ginger and orange essential oil on knee pain among elderly people at selected old age home and to associate of post test level of knee pain among elderly people with selected demographic variables. The investigator adopted Lydia .E.Hall‘s Core, Care, Cure theory for developing the Conceptual Framework. Quantitative Research approach with Pre Experimental Design – One Group Pre test post test Design was selected for this study. Variables of the study were Demographic variable (Age, Sex, Religion, Marital status) Independent variable (Massage with aromatic ginger oil and orange essential oil) Dependent variable (Level of knee pain) Purposive sample of 60 were taken for the study at Aravind home for the aged. WOMAC scale was administered to assess the level of pain. A massage with aromatic ginger oil and orange essential oil was applied for 3 weeks period. A post test was conducted to assess the effectiveness of the intervention. RESULT: In inferential statistics were used to test the hypothesis. The findings revealed that there were significant decrease in level of knee pain after the intervention which was confirmed by Paired ‘t’ test (t = 10.083and P < 0.05) Significant association was noted between post test score level of knee pain of elderly people at 0.05 level of significance. CONCLUSION: The finding of the study revealed that massage with aromatic ginger oil on knee pain was effective on significant reduction of knee pain level among elderly people