COMPARISON OF THE COMBINATION OF DEEP BREATHING EXERCISE-NEUROMUSCULAR TAPING AND DEEP BREATHING EXERCISE-SLOW STROKE BACK MASSAGE TO REDUCE HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE

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ABSTRACT

Background: Hypertension or high blood pressure is a disease that often affects most people. Hypertension is one of the deadliest diseases in the world. Hypertension cannot directly kill the sufferer, but can trigger other deadly diseases. Physiotherapy interventions that can be applied to hypertensive conditions are deep breathing exercise, neuromuscular taping and slow stroke back massage. The purpose of this study was to prove the effectiveness of combination of Deep Breathing Exercise-Neuromuscular Taping and Deep Breathing Exercise-Slow Stroke Back Massage to reduce high blood pressure. By providing this non-pharmacological therapy, it was hoped that it might have an impact on reducing high blood pressure in people with hypertension. Method: This study used a Quasy Experiment design with Two Group Pretest and Posttest design approaches. This research was conducted on hypertensive patients at a health clinic at Panti Werdha Husnul Khotimah Pekanbaru with 2 treatment groups. Data analysis using univariate and bivariate using independent t-test statistics. The results The results of statistical analysis of the SPSS for Windows test using the Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test. In treatment I, there were no differences in systolic pressure between pre and post intervention (p-value = 0.063), as well as the diastolic pressure, there were no differences in diastolic pressure between pre and post intervention (p-value = 0.157). In treatment II, the results showed that deep breathing exercise and slow stroke back massage had an effect on reducing systolic blood pressure (p-value= 0.027) and diastolic blood pressure (p-value= 0.015). The results of the SPSS for Windows test using the Mann Whitney statistical test, the difference between the two groups after the intervention obtained a systolic pressure p-value= 1,000 and diastolic pressure p-value= 0.317, which means there were no differences in blood pressure values between the two groups Conclusion: There were an effect of giving Deep Breathing Exercise-Neuromuscular Taping and Deep Breathing Exercise-Slow Stroke Back Massage on reducing blood pressure in both groups at the health clinic at Panti Werdha Husnul Khotimah Pekanbaru.

Keyword : Hypertension, Deep Breathing Exercise, Neuromuscular Taping, Slow Stroke Back Massage.