The Effectiveness of Herbal Knee Braces to Relieve Knee Pain for the Elderly in Samrong Subdistrict, Phra Pradaeng District, Samut Prakan Province

ประสิทธิผลของผ้ารัดเข่าสมุนไพรเพื่อช่วยบรรเทาอาการปวดข้อเข่าในผู้สูงอายุในพื้นที่ตำบลสำโรง อำเภอพระประแดง จังหวัดสมุทรปราการ

Abstract

         This quasi–experimental research, Randomized Pretest-Posttest Control Group Design, aims to compare the pain before and after using the herbal knee brace, and to study the satisfaction after using the herbal knee brace in which the research study group consisted of 30 experiment and 30 comparison group. The tools used questionnaires to collect the data were the sociodemographic data, an assessment of the knee pain level and satisfaction, before and after using the herbal knee brace in which the statistics used to analyze the data were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and hypothesis testing with Dependent and Independent t-test

The results of the study found that after participating in the trial of the herbal knee brace, comparing knee pain in the experiment group before and after participating in the trial, the level of knee pain was reduced in comparison to before using, statistically significant at the 0.05, and reduced in comparison with  comparison group, statistically significant at the 0.05. That the satisfaction on the herbal knee brace was found to be at a good level.