Differences in the Effects of Maitland Technique and Muligan Technique on Pain Changes and Functional Walking in People with Osteoarthritis Knee

Abstract

Osteoarthritis is an articular cartilage degeneration disease, which generally causes pain when bending the knee, limited knee flexion movement, pain when walking for a long time, difficulty performing prayer movements to sit between two prostrate and unable to perform activities up and down stairs. This study is a quasi experimental study with randomized pre test-post test two group design, aiming to find out the difference in effectiveness between the combination of Ultrasound, Maitland Technique, Theraband exercise and combination of Ultrasound, Muligan Technique, Theraband exercise. Against changes in pain and functional walking in people with osteoarthritis knee, carried out at Poli Physiotherapy Hospital Makassar City, the sample is a knee osteoarthritis patient with a sample number of 14 people divided randomly into 2 groups, namely the treatment group I given ultrasound, theraband exercise and Maitland technique and treatment group II are given ultrasound, theraband exercise and muligan technique. Based on hypothesis testing using the paired sample t test obtained a value of p = 0.000 (p<0.05) in the treatment groups 1 and 2, which means that a combination of Ultrasound, Maitland Technique, Theraband exercise and a combination of Ultrasound, Muligan Technique, Theraband exercise can produce significant pain and functional walking changes. The combination of Ultrasound, Maitland Technique, and Theraband exercise is no more effective than the combination of Ultrasound, Muligan Technique, Theraband exercise against pain changes and functional walking in people with osteoarthritis knee.