| dc.description.abstract | Low back pain (LBP) is a common problem affecting 80% of people at some point in their lives. LBP can affect many people in every social level, regardless of economic level, gender and kind of occupation. Nurse is one profession who has susceptibility of getting low back pain under their daily activities if they don't take care. In the study which had been done by Erwin Dyah N, on 101 nurses of Soetomo Hospital Surabaya in 2006, it was found that 4.5 % from the above amount nurses have experienced LBP. The goal of this study is to analyze the different influence between Back Exercise and the use of lumbar Corset in reducing LBP on the nurses at Materna Hospita, Medan. This study was quasi experimental. The population is nurses who were diagnosed experienced LBP who were qualifying in inclusion criteria, and were found 30 nurses experienced LBP. They were divided at random into two groups with each group of 15 nurses, those are the group who get Lumbar Corset and the other who get Back Exercises. All of the subjects become part of the sample. Data were analyzed by using non parametric method, wilcoxson signed rank test is used to test the different treatment between Lumbar Corset group and Back Exercise group, meanwhile, the Mann Whitney Test is being used to test the difference of each period of Lumbar Corset and Back Exercise group. The level of significance is p h 0,05. The result of this study showed that there was a significant difference between Lumbar Corset group and Back Exercise group in reducing pain und increasing functional activity, but there was no significant difference in increasing lumbar flexibility. We advise the management of Materna Hospital to prevent and minimalize LBP for the nurses by giving information how to do their task in a proper way and by doing Back Exercise everyday in the hospital | en_US |
