The Effect of Stability Ball Exercise on Low back pain Intensity and Functional Activity In Pregnant Women Andi Besse Ahsaniyah (a*) Nahdiah purnamasari (b) Nurul Rezky Amalia (c)
a. Physiotherapy Program, Nursing Faculty, Hasanuddin University
*esseahsaniyah[at]gmail.com
b. Physiotherapy Program, Nursing Faculty, Hasanuddin University
c. Physiotherapy Program, Nursing Faculty, Hasanuddin University
Abstract
Pregnancy is a period that causes many major changes in the body of woman because the growth of fetus in the womb. These changes often result in complaints of low back pain which have an impact on daily functional activity in pregnant mother such as self care, lifting, walking, sitting, standing, sleeping, sexual life, social life, and going to other place.
This study aims to determine the effect of stability ball exercise on Low back pain Intensity and functional activity in pregnant mother. This study used experimental design one group pre test and post test with the type of time series research. The subjects of this study were pregnant mother with second and third trimesters in Tamalanrea and Tamalanrea Jaya public health center. The number of respondents were 13 peoples with the sampling used a purposive sampling technique. The subjects were given stability ball exercise for 4 weeks (12 times treatments).
Low back pain intensity and Functional activity were measured by using the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and oswestry disability index (ODI). The result of the this study after used Paired T-Test and obtained a significant value p<0.001 (p<0.05) for both Low back pain intensity and Functional activity.This shows that there is an effect of stability ball exercise on Low back pain intensity and functional activity in pregnant mother.
Keywords: low back pain, pregnancy, functional activity, stability ball exercise
