PENGARUH PEMBERIAN KOMBINASI LATIHAN PASSIVE STRETCHING DAN MYOFASCIAL REALEASE TERHADAP PENURUNAN NYERI OTOT GASTROCNEMIUS PADA SUPIR BUS TERMINAL LANDUNGSARI

ABSTRACT Background: Bus drivers generally have high working hours which greatly affect the quality of their health, especially the health of their feet. The decline in the quality of the bus driver's feet is generally caused by muscle tension in the leg area, for example the gastrocnemius muscle. This muscle tension will eventually cause the bus driver's leg pain. Purpose: To determine the effect of giving a combination of stretching exercises and myofascial realease on reducing pain due to gastrocnemius muscle tension in the bus terminal driver Landungsari. Research Method: This research is a pre and post experimental design in which the writer will describe the pre and post test conditions of the selected sample. The sample of this study came from a bus driver at Landungsari Malang terminal who had leg pain due to gastrocnemius muscle tension who was given stretching and myofascial realease treatment. Initially, the sample was 6 people, then 4 people entered the inclusion criteria, because the other 2 were in the DO category. This research analysis using paired T test. Results: H0 is accepted and H1 is rejected, with a 2-tailed significance value ≤ 0.05, so there is a significant difference between the pre-test and post-test data values ​​in this study. Conclusion: There is an effect of reducing pain due to gastrocnemius muscle tension in bus driver of terminal Landungsari drive