Author: 1Suriani
1Physiotherapy Department, Health Polytechnic, Makassar, Indonesia
Email: surianidappe24@gmail.com
Abstract
It is assumed that almost all people ever suffered low waist pain in their life. The effect of low waist pain, the patients suffer a limit in doing daily activities and they also lose many work times, particularly in productive age. This study aimed to analyze the effectivity of friction and William flexion exercises method for reducing low waist pain by utilizing one group pretest-posttest design. The subject of this research was 19 patients who suffered low waist pain and they visited to Physiotherapy Clinic of Ratulangi Medical Centre in Makassar, Indonesia. Paired sample t-test showed p-value was 0.000, thus, it could be concluded that there was a significant difference of low waist pain level between before and after giving friction and William Flexion Exercise method.
Key words: Friction, William Flexion Exercises, low waist pain
