THE EFFECT OF USING PAD GLOVES AND TAPING ON PAIN REDUCTION IN CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME

Abstract

Carpal tunnel syndrome is a disorder that occurs in the wrist where there is a carpal tunnel through which the median nerve passes, due to excessive movement or pressure on the carpal tunnel which causes irritation of the median nerve, the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of using gloves with pads and taps on reducing carpal tunnel syndrome pain, this research method uses a quasi-experimental pre and post design with 2 group design, as many as 50 subjects were divided into 2 groups given gloves with pads and the other group was given a tap intervention, the research subjects were people who worked more than 3 hours riding a motorbike in 1 day, when driving the hands get pressure when slowing down the vehicle and when passing through damaged roads, the research subjects used gloves for 10 working days in two weeks, and used tapping for 2 weeks with a duration of 1 day on for 8 hours, 1 day off to prevent allergy. The results of this study were obtained by 31 men and 19 women with an average age of 32.2 years and an average pain before 5.4 and after 4.08 on the vase scale, the group using gloves and the taping group had an average pain of 4.12 before and after 1.84, in the statistical test conducted, a p value of 0.0001 was obtained where p <0.05 so it can be concluded that the use of gloves and taps can reduce pain in cases of carpal tunnel syndrome.