PERBEDAAN PENGARUH KINESIO TAPING DENGAN RETRO WALKING EXERCISE TERHADAP PENURUNAN NYERI PADA LANSIA BERESIKOOSTEOARTHRITIS KNEE DI PUSKESMAS KENDALKEREP
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- Background: Osteoarthritis is defined as degenerative disease on synovial joint marked by chondropathy and related to the elderly. One of osteoarthritis symptoms on knee joint is pain. Furthermore, the method in reducing pain is using non-pharmacological treatment, that can be done by giving kinesio taping and retro walking exercise. Method: This research is conducted by using quasi experimental design with pretest and post test two group design, that involves 30 respondents with purposive sampling as sample collection technique. In this research, the sample is divided into two groups that consists of group given kinesio taping exercise (n=14) and retro walking exercise (n=16). In addition, the collected data is analyzed by using mann whitneyy u test. Result: The analysis by using mann whitneyy u test on kinesio taping and retro walking exercise group is resulting significance value in reducing pain 0,02 (p<0,05). Therefore, H0 is rejected which means that there is an influence difference between kinesio taping and retro walking exercise in reducing pain on elderly at risk of osteoarthritis knee. Conclusion : Both kinesio taping and retro walking exercise are influencing toward pain reduction on elderly. However, the mean result shows that kinesio taping is more influencing in reducing pain as compared to retro walking exercise.