Yoga Can Reduce the Scale of Arthritis Pain in the Elderly at Pos Bindu, Tanah Sareal, Bogor

Abstract

Backgroud : Arthritis almost happen in elder people, The main problem for elder with arthritis is joint pain.  Pain could effect elderly physical function so elder people increase their dependency with their family and others. The treatment for this is meditation technique.  one of meditation technique is yoga. By doing routine yoga, the joint pain would be decreased and the elder people could do activity normally. The purpose of this study is to identify the effect of  yoga for reduction  joint pain in older people with arthritis in Posbindu Kelurahan Tanah Sareal Bogor.

Methode : This study use quasi experiment design with pre and post test design. There are thirty seven respondens participated  this study. They did yoga exercise for nine weeks (nine times exercise). Pain is evaluated before and after study with Bourbanis pain scale.

Result : The finding of this study is yoga could effect significantly for reduction of arthritis join pain in elder people (from mean of pain scale 7.46 to 2.89, p <0.000).

Conclusios : Elder people could do Yoga for reduction of arthritis joint pain