PENGARUH SENAM HAMIL TERHADAP PENURUNAN NYERI PUNGGUNG BAWAH PADA IBU HAMIL TRIMESTER III DI PUSKESMAS TELAGA BIRU

Abstract

One discomfort that often arises in pregnancy is back pain. Back pain is a disorder that is experienced by many pregnant women throughout pregnancy until the post-natal period. One attempt to reduce back pain during pregnancy is to do pregnancy exercises. This study aims to determine the Effect of Pregnancy exercises on Decreasing Lower Back Pain in Trimester III Pregnant Women in the Telaga Biru Health Center Work Area. This type of research is a quantitative study using the Quasi Experiment method with the Nonequivalent Control Group Design approach. Purposive Sampling technique which amounted to 32 pregnant women. The instrument in this study used the NRS pain scale observation sheet and SOP observation sheet for pregnancy exercise. Processing data using SPSS 16.0. The results of the analysis showed that there was an effect of pregnancy exercise on decreasing low back pain in third-trimester pregnant women in the Telaga Biru Health Center Work Area with a p-value of 0.000 (p <0.05).