Open AccessTHE EFFECT OF HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICINES ON ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, WELL BEING AND PHYSICAL SIGNS AMONG PATIENTS WITH LOW BACK PAIN
Author(s) -
Subhadra KT,
Razeena Padmam
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
zenodo (cern european organization for nuclear research)
Language(s) - English
DOI - 10.5281/zenodo.293702
Subject(s) - anxiety , depression (economics) , medicine , alternative medicine , traditional medicine , back pain , psychiatry , psychology , physical therapy , pathology , economics , macroeconomics
To study whether there is any difference in the effect of homoeopathic medicines, placebo, homoeopathic medicines in combination with placebo on anxiety, depression, well being and physical signs among patients with pathological low back pain and somatoform low back pain. The sample consisted of 439 patients including patients with pathological low back pain and somatoform low back pain. The patients in these two category were further classified into three groups based on the type of intervention used such as - patients treated with homoeopathic medicines, patients treated with placebo and patients treated with homoeopathic medicines in combination with placebo. The findings of this study shown that homoeopathic treatment had a highly significant role in reducing the low back pain of patients with pathological low back pain that had a physical pathology when compared to patients with somatoform low back pain. Patients with pathological low back pain and somatoform low back pain who received homoeopathic medicines had higher reduction in Pain, functional disability, anxiety and depression whereas enhancement in well being followed by the patients who received homoeopathic medicine in combination with placebo. Patients who received placebo had least relief