Pengaruh Senam Punggung Terhadap Penurunan Intensitas Nyeri Pada Lansia Dengan Low Back Pain

• Main Author: Hanim Mufarokhah, -
• Format: Theses and Dissertations NonPeerReviewed
• Language: Indonesian
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: RT Nursing
• Online Access: https://repository.unair.ac.id/122595/1/Hanim%20Mufarokhah_010410713B.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/122595/; http://www.lib.unair.ac.id
• Institution: Universitas Airlangga

Low back pain was being general issue for many people especially to elderly. Acute low back pain if not get right treatment will be a chronic low back pain that could be decreased the quality of life, annoyed social stimulus, degradation of emotional ability and functional ability. Back exercise is one of the treatment that can strengthen stomach muscle, and back muscle. The aimed of this research is to explain the effect of back exercise in decreasing of pain intensity to elderly low back pain. This research used quasy experimental design with pre post test designed. The sampling technique used purposive sampling. The sample was taken from those suitable with inclusion criteria, and total sample was 14 elderly people. The independent variable was back exercise and the dependent variable was elderly intensity of pain. Data were analyzed by Wilcoxon Singned Rank Test and mann whitney U test significance a < 0,05 The result showed that treatment group has significance level p 0.017 and control group has significance level p 0.109 and the result of Mann Whitney U Test showed p 0.002. It can be concluded that back exercise can decrease elderly intensity of low back pain scale, perception, and improve quality of live. Further studies should involved larger respondents and better measurement tools to obtain more accurate results.It can be suggested to the institution to motivate elderly to exercise by themselves.