PERBEDAAN PENGARUH KINESIO TAPING DENGAN RETRO WALKING EXERCISE TERHADAP PENINGKATAN ROM PADA LANSIA BERESIKO OSTEOARTHRITIS KNEE DI PUSKESMAS KENDAL KAREP
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- Background:Osteoarthritis is defined as degenerative disease on synovial joint marked by chondropathy. Commonly,osteoarthritis is related to the elderly that is caused by several factors, such as:age, gender and overweight.One of osteoarthritis symptoms on knee joint is pain.Furthermore, the method in reducing pain isusing non-pharmacological treatment, that can be done by giving kinesio taping and retro walking exercisethat increases ROM. Method: This research is using quasi-eksperimental design with pre andpost test two group design which is involving30 respondents by using purposive sampling. In this research, there are two groups which is divided into two intervention groups. In addition, the obtained data is analyzed by usingMann Whitneyy test. Result: The analysis using Wilcoxon Signed Ranked test inkinesio taping is resulting 0,001 significant value, while retro walking exercise is resulting 0,019 significant value. Whereas the analysis using MannWhitneyy test in free variable is resulting sig (0,010) > 0,05, it means H0 is rejected, therefore there is influence difference betweenkinesio taping and retro walking exercise towards ROM enhancement. Conclusion: Bothkinesio taping and retro walking exercise is influenced the ROM enhancement towards elderly inPuskesmas Kendal Karep Polehan. However, the mean result shows thatkinesio taping is more influenced in enhancing ROM as compared to retro walking exercise.