PENGARUH POSTUR DAN POSISI TUBUH TERHADAP TIMBULNYA NYERI PUNGGUNG BAWAH

Abstract

Background: Low back pain is a common symptom in our life. Body posture and body position is one of risk factors that can induce low back pain. Body posture is devided in to three condition: pyknic, leptosome and athletic. There are three body position catagorized, they are sitting, standing and walking. Objective: The objective of this study is to find the effects of body posture and body position in development of low back pain. Methods: The research desaign was a case control study, matching in age and sex variable. The patients of low back pain as a research sample. The research is done in Neuro sections of RSUP Dr. Kariadi Semarang during March to June 2010. There are fifty five sampels which collected. All sample fullfilled the criterias. The instrument that use to collect the data was quesionare. The data was serve descriptively in table and analyzed using Chisquare, odds ratio, and regression logistic. Result: Chi square test between variables using α = 0.05, CI 95% dan power 80% was not significant for athletic (p = 0.223) and walking (p = 0.056). The result of regression logistic analysis was significant for pyknic (p = 0.0001) and sitting (p = 0.0001). Conclusion: There are corellation between body posture and body position with development of low back pain. Keywords: low back pain, body postur, body posititon