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Abstract

ABSTRACT

The Effect of Neck and Scalp Massage on Tired Eyes.

Yoon, Joo-young Advisor : Prof. Moon, Kyung Rye, M.D.,Ph.D Department of Alternative Medicine Graduate School of Health Science Chosun University

This study researched correlation between massage on scalp and neck and relief tiredness of eyes. The research conducted an experiment was conducted on a hospitals’ twenty patients who had experimented uncomfortableness with or felt strained in their eyes. From February 2015 to March, 2015, a researchers selected ten patients each as an control group and other ten patients for an experimental group. Every patient suffered from eye strain yet had never gone under ophthalmologic surgery. The patients from the experimental group received massage for five weeks, twice a week and ten times total. Twice a week, Eye strain level of the subjects were tested using through VAS immediately after the massage on their scalp and neck. In this research, statistic package SPSS 12.0k was used to determine variation in the level of eye strain in response to the massage. In addition frequency analysis, cross analysis also known as Fisher’s exact test, Mann-Whitney U-test and Wilcoxon's signed-ranks test were used to analyze the results. The significance level of every test was α=0.05.

In this study, massage, former eye fatigue, both group and the control group, meaningful eye strain in the case of a group after massage, but fatigue, scores from 1.60 to 7.40It dropped to keep in mind than control group. This is in the neck and scalp massage is thought to have influence to reduce the fatigue in the eye. This is in the neck and scalp massage in the eye indicates to be effective in relieving fatigue.

The results are as follows.

1. After receiving massage, eye strain of the patients from the experimental group was reduced compared to the control group. Specifically, the eye strain level was decreased from 7.40 initially to 7.20 after 1-2 massages. The level continued to decrease to 5.50 (3-4 massages), 4.30 (5-6 massages), 2.90 (7-8 massages), 1.60 (9-10 massages), passing the significance level. These findings supports the hypothesis that scalp and neck massage can relives eye strain. 2. There was a significance drop on eye strain level of th patients from the after 5-6 massages.