Pengaruh Tandem Walking Exercise Dan Ankle Strategy Terhadap Keseimbangan Statis Pada Lansia

Increasing the number of elderly people and life expectancy will have a major impact on health in society, especially the changes in physical psychological changes and various body functions in the elderly. The process of aging in general will be characterized by the presence of several deterioration of the function of an organ of the body. The setbacks that are often experienced by the elderly include impaired mobility, stability, intellectual decline, decline in the nervous system and others. When entering the elderly, there will be a physiological decline which will result in a degenerative disorder. One of the degenerative disorders is a decrease in balance in the elderly which will result in the risk of falling in the elderly. Tandem walking exercise and ankle strategy are interventions given to these conditions which are useful for improving and maintaining the balance function of the elderly. This study aims to determine the effect of tandem walking exercise and ankle strategy on static balance in the elderly. Methods: This type of research is a quasi-experimental research design, namely two groups pretest-posttest design. A sample of 20 elderly people in Posyandu Abadi 1 Gonilan. The results of the influence test with the Wilcoxon test in the tandem walking exercise group got a p-value <0.05 (p = 0.000) and the ankle strategy group p-value <0.05 (p = 0.000) so there was an influence between the tandem walking exercise group and the ankle strategy. . The results of the different effect test with the Mann Whitney test between the tandem walking exercise and ankle strategy groups obtained a z-value of 2.368 with a p-value of 0.018