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Effect of Balance Exercise against Postural Balance in PSTW Kasih Sayang Ibu Batusangkar Year 2013

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Elderly are the age group most at risk of impaired postural balance due to declining elderly or morphological changes in the muscles that cause functional changes in muscle strength and decreasing muscle contraction. Decreasing in postural balance due to decreased muscle strength can be improved by doing exercises that are useful to keep the muscle function and posture remains well one of them is balance exercise. This research uses a pre – experimental design one group pre - post test design with One Group Pre - Post Test Design. Population and sample of the study was elderly with impaired postural balance that met the inclusion criteria by using were purposive sampling techniques they were 41respondents. This study was conducted from July to September 2013 in PSTW Kasih saying lbu Batusangkar. Measuring instruments used in this study is a questionnaire for the elderly demographic data and tools to measure the level of the elderly postural balance sheet observation Berg Balance Scale. While the results obtained from the significant influence of postural balance elderly before and after exercise balance with p value 0.000 with a mean difference of 8.171.

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The Proceeding of National Nursing Seminar The Association of Indonesian Nurse Education Center (AINEC) : Quality Improvement in Nursing Education Toward Global Standard to Achieve Quality in Health S

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(051) 610.5 ASO t

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Jakarta : AIPNI., 2013

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Hlm. 2

Language

English

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978-602-19251-2-6

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(051) 610.5 ASO t

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Balance exercise
Elderly

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