HUBUNGAN RESIKO OSTEOARTHRITIS LUTUT TERHADAP NILAI KEKUATAN OTOT QUADRICEPS FEMORIS PADA LANSIA DI POSYANDU LANSIA PANDANWANGI BLIMBING KOTA MALANG
Daftar Isi:
- Background: Elderly people at risk of knee osteoarthritis are often found in the elderly so that it will cause weakness in the strength of the quadriceps femoris muscle and increase with age. Weakness of muscle strength is caused by the presence of muscle atrophy, muscle atrophy occurs because of the presence of motion limitations due to the presence of pain in the knee. Objective: To identify the relationship of the risk of knee osteoarthritis to the value of quadriceps femoris muscle strength in pansies at the elderly Posyandu Pandanwangi Blimbing Malang City. Research Methods: This study used Analytical Observational with the Cross-Sectional approach method. The sample of this study was 85 members of the Posyandu elderly Pandanwangi Blimbing Malang City using purposive-sampling sampling technique. Results: Processing and analysis of data using the Mann-Whitney test with the SPSS program. Calculations show that there is a correlation between the risk of knee osteoarthritis and the value of quadriceps femoris muscle strength in pansies at the Posyandu in the elderly Pandanwangi Blimbing Malang city with a sig 2 tailed value of 0.000 <0.05, then H0 is rejected and H1 is accepted. Conclusion: There is a relationship between the risk of knee osteoarthritis and the value of quadriceps femoris muscle strength in Pansias at the Pandanwangi Blimbing elderly Posyandu in Malang.