This study aimed to investigate the effects of the JU Dance Movement Therapy Program on the pain relief of hemiplegic stroke patients. A total of 20 inpatients(10 in experimental group and 10 in control group) diagnosed with hemiplegic stroke at R hos...
This study aimed to investigate the effects of the JU Dance Movement Therapy Program on the pain relief of hemiplegic stroke patients. A total of 20 inpatients(10 in experimental group and 10 in control group) diagnosed with hemiplegic stroke at R hospital from September to December 2010 were sampled for the study. We first evaluated the general characteristics and subjective symptoms of the research participants and then A pre-test was conducted by performing a physical examination on individuals who suffer from the pain. The degree of patients` subjective pain of the experimental group who received the JU Dance Movement Therapy Program for 12 weeks(0th week: the first experiment; 4th week: the second; 8th week: the 3rd; and 12th week: the 4th) and the control group who didn`t receive the JU Dance Therapy Program were measured by Visual Analogue Scale(VAS). The average and standard deviation of all the variables were first calculated by using the SPSS (Ver 18.0) and then paired t-test was conducted to compare the difference between before and after among the groups. Finally, the result was analyzed using the independent t-test. The level of statistical significance for all tests was P<.05 and the results of studying were as follows: The changes of the VAS score on the 0th week, the 4th week, the 8th week, and the 12th week were 7.4±1.90, 5.8±1.69(p=0.003), 4.2±1.55(p=0.000), and 1.7±1.25(p=0.000) respectively and the changes were significantly decreased after the 4th week in the experiment group. There was no significant difference between the 0th week(6.7±1.42) and the 4th week(6.3±1.57), but there was significant difference between the 8th week(5.7±1.77(p=0.004)) and the 12th week(5.5±1.96(p=0.003)) in the control group. Finally, there was no significant difference until the 8th week, but significant differences were found on the 12th week between the two groups.