2.2. Intervention
tingling [
PAD, STERILE
In order to collect the data for this study, the researcher, who works at the spine center as a nurse, has 20 years of clinical experience at a tertiary general hospital, is fully knowledgeable about the physiology of human anatomy and major body mechanisms, particularly on the spine, and has a high understanding of patients who are expecting and have undergone a spinal surgery, completed a specialized course in AA conducted by the Korean Nurses Association of Complementary and Alternative Therapy and obtained an expert certificate. In the research procedure, the researcher performed hand hygiene before AA and wiped the foreign substances in one ear of the patients with a disinfectant cotton pad moistened with sterile saline solution. Then, any abnormal findings were observed in the ear. For the AA, For the 5 days of attaching the AA patches, the study subjects were instructed to press the pressure-applied areas four times a day for 2 min using their thumb, index, or middle finger as hard as to feel tingling [