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Lisbeth Josefina Reales C. 1 * , Victoria E. Pastor 2 , Rosa E. Aldaz Sanchez 3 , Josselyn G. Bonilla Ayala 4
Doi: https://doi.org/10.54216/IJNS.210405
This work was developed at the Dr. Publio Escobar Gómez Hospital in Ecuador. The objective is to reduce pain and tone the abdominal and back muscles in adults with lumbosciatica through the application of hypopressive abdominal training to help reintroduce the adult to their work and social activities. We worked with a population of 25 male and female adult patients, with an age range from 30 to 50 years old. To process the collected data, we determined that classical statistics are too restrictive in terms of the hypotheses to fulfill. For example, the initial evaluation employing the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) that assesses the intensity of pain is subjective and depends on the pain threshold of each patient, moreover, the size of the population is not large (<30), therefore it is not possible to carry out a study with the rigor required by classical statistics to infer. That is why we have decided to use neutrosophic statistics to process the data, which will consist of pain scales in the form of intervals, which will contain indeterminacy. The statistical test selected was the T-test for paired samples. In addition to the fact that neutrosophic statistics admit the principles of De Finetti's subjective probabilities and the statistics derived from it, where objective evidence through a random sample is not needed to reach valid conclusions.
Lumbosciatic pain , Hypopressive abdominal training , Neutrosophic Statistics , Subjective probability , T-test.
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