Therapeutic Exercise for Lower Back Pain Reduction and Posture Improvement In Elementary School Students

Low Back Pain is a pain disorder that is sometimes felt in an unclear distribution in the lower back and buttocks. The incidence of musculoskeletal pain in children within 1 year of reported cases of Lower Back Pain (18-33%), neck pain (28%), and Mid-Back Pain (15-35%). One of the things that can be used to reduce pain and treat these conditions is the therapeutic exercise aimed at children. The purpose of this research was to determine the effect of therapeutic exercise on back pain and posture improvement in elementary school students. The research method used was pre-experimental research which was conducted on elementary school students without using a control group. This research was conducted online at SDN Sonorejo 2 Kediri in August 2020. Pain measurement used the Wong-Baker Faces Pain, which was measured at the pretest and posttest. The results showed that the mean pretest score was 4.07 and for the post-test average score was 0.87. This shows that the mean pretest score results are in the interpretation of a little more pain, while the average posttest score results are in the painless interpretation, which means that there is a decrease from the average pretest score results. Wilcoxon test results obtained p value = 0.000 where α = 0.05, so it can be concluded that there is a significant reduction in low back pain after giving therapeutic exercise.