PERBANDINGAN RETRO WALKING EXERCISE DAN KINESIO TAPING TERHADAP PENINGKATAN AKTIVITAS FUNGSIONAL PADA LANSIA BERPOTENSI OSTEOARTHRITIS KNEE DI PUSKESMAS KENDAL KEREP
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- Background: Osteoarthritis is defined as a synovial joint degenerative disease that is indicated by chondropathy and new bone proliferation with remodeling of contour of the joint. The symptom of knee osteoarthritis caused bothers daily activities and functional activities of the body. Accordingly, in order to increases the functional activity, physiotherapy in the term of retro walking exercise and kinesio taping will be conducted. Method: this research used quasy experimental with non equivalent group design which involved 30 respondents and used purposive sampling. There were two intervention groups, namely retro walking exercise group (n=16) and kinesio taping group (n=14). The measuring instrument was Lower Extremity Functional Scale (LEFS) Result: Research finding by using wilcoxon signed rank test to those two groups indicates there is improvement functional activity. Thus, the research finding using Mann whitneyy u test on shows a sig value (0.88)> 0.05 which means that H0 was accepted. Conclusion: There is no different effect between kinesio taping and retro walking exercise in increasing of functional activity to elderly in Health Center of Kendal Kerep Polehan. However, mean shows that retro walking exercise more affects to increase functional activity than kinesio taping.