Authors: 1Suharto, 2Suriani
Physiotherapy Department, Health Polytechnic of Makassar, Indonesia
Email: suhartoft11@gmail.com
Abstract
This study aimed to analyze the difference of effectiveness between myofascial release technique and contract relax stretching in reducing the ischialgia patients’ pain by utilizing a quasi-experimental design. The subjects were 26 ischialgia patients who were divided into 2 groups. Each groups consisted of 13 patients who were chosen randomly. Before and after treatment, there would be the measurement of pain level by utilizing Visual Analogue Scale. Result of paired t-test sample showed that there was significant difference of pain level between before and after treatment of myofascial release technique which the mean difference was 4,254 (p = 0.000), as well as before and after the treatment of contract relax stretching which the mean difference was 3.67 (p = 0.000). Result of independent t-test sample showed that p-value was 0.110, which meant that there was no significant difference of pain level from both methods. However, it was concluded that myofacial release technique and contract relax stretching were effective in reducing the ischialgia patients’ pain.
Keywords: Myofascial release technique, contract relax stretching, pain, ischialgia.
