• Prachi Pawar
• Mrs. Sucheta yangad
• Mrs. Rupali Salvi
• Dr. Mrs. Nisha Naik

Introduction: Median sternotomy is a type of surgical procedure in which a vertical inline incision is made along the sternum, after which the sternum itself is divided or “cracked”. This procedure access to the heart and lungs for surgical procedures such as heart transplant, corrective surgery for congenital heart defects, or coronary artery bypass surgery. Pain is an unpleasant and highly personal experience that may be impercible to others, while consuming all parts of the person’s life. Pain presents both physiologic and psychological dangers to health and recovery. Post- operative pain is caused by the interaction of number of physiologic and psychologic factors. Despite the availability of analgesic drugs and pain relieving techniques, pain remains a common problem and a significant fear for the patient in post operative period. The present study title: A study to assess the effect of foot reflexology on pain among patient with sternotomy. The objective of the study to identify the level of pain of the patient before and after giving foot reflexology,to determine the effect of foot reflexology among patient with sternotomy, to find the association between pain with selected demographic variable. Material and Methods: In present study, researcher adopted a pre-experimental One-group pre test-post-test design. The study carried out 60 samples. A Non-probability Purposive Sampling Technique was used. Data analysis was done mainly using descriptive statistics test- t test was applied. Result: Researcher applied paired t-test for the effect of foot reflexology among patients with sternotomy. Average pain score before procedure was 6.7 which reduced to 6.7, 5.7, 5.3, 4.5, 3.9 and 3.2 on day1 first observation, day1 second observation, day2 first observation, day2 second observation, day3 first observation, day2 second observation, day3 first observation and day3 second observation respectively. T- values for this test were 1.8, 61, 21.4, 32.8, 30.2 and 27.4 at day1 first observation, day1 second observation, day2 first observation, day2 second observation, day3 first observation and day3 second observation respectively. Corresponding p-values were small (less than 0.05) at all the time points. This indicates that the foot reflexology was found to be significantly effective in improving the pain among patients with sternotomy. p-values were small (less than 0.05), the null hypothesis is rejected. Conclusion: the foot reflexology was found to be significantly effective in reliving the pain among patients with sternotomy.Since p-value corresponding to Age is small (less than 0.05), age of the patients was found to have significant association with pain.

Effect, Reflexology, Pain, Sterenoyomy

"Effect of foot reflexology on pain among patient with sternotomy", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.449-457, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906Z63.pdf

"Effect of foot reflexology on pain among patient with sternotomy", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp449-457, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906Z63.pdf