A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Pranic Healing Therapy on Backache among Adults At Pranic Healing Centre in Pune City

Abstract

Introduction: Pranic healing is a energy based therapy . It activates the healing meachanism in the body
Objective : To assess the degree of pain among the adult on back pain.,to assess the effectiveness of Pranic
healing therapy on backache among adults. And to determine the association between backpain and Pranic
Healing therapy with selected demographic variables variables Methods:. A quantitative approach and
Pre-experimental one-group pretest-posttest research design was used to assess the effectiveness of pranic
healing therapy among adults group. study was conducted in a selected Pranic healing therapy centre in
Pune city more than 200 adult came for the therapy. Amongst them 40 samples were selected for the study
who fulfills the inclusion criteria.. Convenience sampling techniques was used for the selection of samples
in this study.Tool included three Sections . Part I – Demographic variable . Part II - modified Bayerchiro’s
pain scale to assess the symptoms of pain, stiffness, and physical function in patients with back pain. The
samples were given a pretest , followed by Pranic healing therapy was given and post test is given. Result:
Average pain score in pretest was 33.1 which decreased to 29.3 in posttest. T-value for this test was 9.3 with
39 degrees of freedom. Corresponding p-value was small (less than 0.05), null hypothesis is rejected. This is
evident that the Pranic healing therapy improved the backache among adults significantly Conclusion: After
the therapy given to the adult age group with backpain , pranic healing therapy is one of the most important
aspect to decrease pain without any side effects